[Peace-discuss] Fwd: 12-12-01-- ACLU Action Update: Rescind Ashcroft's Eavesdropping Regulation

[Al Kagan]

>Delivered-To: akagan at alexia.lis.uiuc.edu
>Date: Wed, 12  Dec  2001 16:46:25 -0500
>From: action at dcaclu.org
>To: aclu_list at capwiz.mailmanager.net
>Subject: 12-12-01-- ACLU Action Update: Rescind Ashcroft's 
>Eavesdropping Regulation
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>TO: ACLU Action Network Members
>FR: Jared Feuer, Internet Organizer
>DT: December 12, 2001
>
>Without observing the legally mandated period of public review and 
>comment, Attorney General Ashcroft has implemented a new 
>eavesdropping regulation that gives the government, without judicial 
>oversight or meaningful standards, the unprecedented power to listen 
>in on conversations between prison inmates and their attorneys. 
>
>The new regulation renders the age-old tradition of attorney-client 
>privilege worthless and essentially guts the right to counsel 
>guaranteed by the Constitution.  Furthermore, the new regulation is 
>unnecessary since the Department of Justice already has the legal 
>authority to record attorney-client conversations by
>going before a judge and obtaining a warrant.
>
>Take Action!  The Bureau of Prisons is compiling public comments 
>through December 31 and a huge public outcry could force Ashcroft to 
>rescind the regulation.  Now is the last time to speak out!  You can 
>read more and send an email to the Bureau of Prisons from our action 
>alert at:
>
>http://www.aclu.org/action/attorney107.html
>
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Al Kagan
African Studies Bibliographer and Professor of Library Administration
Africana Unit, Room 328
University of Illinois Library
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