The Other Shoe Falls On NSA

Leftwing lawyers defending GWOT terrorists are quickly exploiting last week's NYT leak about NSA domestic intelligence, seeing it as a way to free their reprehensible clients -- and America be damned in the process.

The NYTimes (who else?) reports:

Defense lawyers in some of the country's biggest terrorism cases say they plan to bring legal challenges to determine whether the National Security Agency used illegal wiretaps against several dozen Muslim men tied to Al Qaeda.

The lawyers said in interviews that they wanted to learn whether the men were monitored by the agency and, if so, whether the government withheld critical information or misled judges and defense lawyers about how and why the men were singled out.

Of course, the government will not, cannot, provide the information necessary to justify the prosecution of these thugs, since it's more important to national security to gather intelligence on new threats. This doesn't concern the lefty lawyers, whose only concerns are (1) their careers, (2) shaming America and (3) freeing possible terrorists. It's a sick world, and the NYT is all too happy to give the sickest aid and comfort.

Look, here's how disgusting it is:

Government officials, in defending the value of the security agency's surveillance program, have said in interviews that it played a critical part in at least two cases that led to the convictions of Qaeda associates, Iyman Faris of Ohio, who admitted taking part in a failed plot to bring down the Brooklyn Bridge, and Mohammed Junaid Babar of Queens, who was implicated in a failed plot to bomb British targets.

David B. Smith, a lawyer for Mr. Faris, said he planned to file a motion in part to determine whether information about the surveillance program should have been turned over. Lawyers said they were also considering a civil case against the president, saying that Mr. Faris was the target of an illegal wiretap ordered by Mr. Bush. ...

Why Smith finds it necessary to defend a man who wanted to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge is beyond me. But if Smith does indeed file a lawsuit against the President for (possibly) authorizing the investigation that captured this thug, it shows how visciously warped the leftist bar has become.

Here's how desperate Smith's defense of Faris (who has met with bin Laden and provided materials and intelligence to terrorists) is:

The government "thinks he's guilty because he looks so dangerous," said Faris' current attorney, David B. Smith. "It's not because they had a good case against him but because he's potentially an extremely dangerous person."

If that's all the government has on Faris, then clearly they didn't use any electronic surveillance to nail him.