Surveillance Without Suspicion: Who Watches the Watchmen?

"Watching Me, Watching You" by Asher Blue from the Seattlest Flickr pool.

Coverage of the Bush administration’s liberal use of secret surveillance against American citizens was biggish news when it broke. Nevertheless, it seems to be a diminishing issue, perpetually subsumed by subjects more immediately pressing to the average citizen. Part of the problem may be that beyond the obvious violation of privacy, few of us have any idea what the potentially far-reaching and (really) long-term legal ramifications wiretapping and the NSA actually have on ours and future lives.

Former Special Agent Mike German who covered National Security and Domestic Terrorism for the F.B.I. changed sides and now works for the American Civil Liberties Union in a similar capacity. He will be speaking at Broadway Performance Hall (next to Seattle Central Community College) on Capitol Hill tonight, ostensibly about legal and constitutional rights related to domestic surveillance issues, but access to this information is on a highly restricted first come, first seated basis. Check out Surveillance Without Suspicion 7:00 p.m. tonight at the Broadway Performance Hall.