| | |  Americas & Beyond | September 2009 
Bush's Wiretapping Goes to Court in SF
 Bob Egelko - San Francisco Chronicle
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September 25, 2009
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San Francisco - After years of wrangling over legal procedures, the lawyer for a defunct Islamic charity laid out his case this week that former President George W. Bush's secret wiretapping program was illegal - an argument that an Obama administration attorney refused to discuss.
"May the president of the United States break the law in the name of national security? ... We're asking this court to say, 'no,' " Jon Eisenberg, lawyer for the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation, told a federal judge in San Francisco.
Neither the president's constitutional powers as commander in chief nor Congress' authorization to use military force against terrorists after Sept. 11, 2001, entitled Bush to override a 1978 law requiring court approval for electronic surveillance of suspected terrorists, Eisenberg argued.
To read more about the case that put's former President George W. Bush's domestic surveillance program on trial, click here.
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