Today's Quote 07.11.06

The Bush administration has invoked a legal doctrine known as the "state-secrets privilege" that it has used to head off other court action spy programs. "If the court accepts the state-secret argument, we are truly facing a constitutional crisis in this country," Michael Steinberg, legal director for ACLU Michigan, told reporters after the hearing. The ACLU, which filed the lawsuit in January, argues that the NSA wiretaps violate free-speech and privacy rights protected by the U.S. Constitution.