Giuliani’s ties to terrorism?
Nov. 28: The Village Voice’s Wayne Barrett discusses his new article which
connects the dots between Rudy Giuliani, his firm GiulianiPartners, and a member
 of the royal family of Qatar believed to have harbored a 9/11 mastermind.


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The Bush administration has been using the “state secrets” defense in order
 to have federal law suits challenging their illegal eavesdropping programs
thrown out of court

“It Is Rather Clear That What The President Ordered Was A Federal Crime”

. So far, they have been successful; thanks, in most cases, to lazy or partisan judges
who have given little or no scrutiny of the validity of their claims which, according to
 Constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley on Tuesday’s Countdown, are nothing
 more than unconstitutional attempts to cover up their own federal crimes.

Olbermann: “With or without this new law, suppose one of the anti-wiretapping civil lawsuits
    succeeds, what does that legal victory actually mean then in terms of stopping the government
    or punishing Alberto Gonzales or any other top officials who were responsible for this?”

Turley: “Well, it can mean a lot and that’s one of the reasons there’s a lot of people, both
    Democrats and Republicans, who don’t want to see it happen. They don’t want a court to say
    that the president did something that is a federal crime. That’s why they’re trying to get all these
    cases thrown out of court because it is rather clear that what the president ordered was
    a federal crime, clearly defined in federal law.

        But that causes a problem because many of the Democratic leaders and Republican leaders
    have promised each other that they would not start impeachment proceedings, but when
    a federal judge says the president committed a crime, it’s pretty darn hard to ignore that.”