Bush wins 2006 Jefferson Muzzle award

[dogday]

President George W Bush and the Justice Department are among the winners of the 2006 Jefferson Muzzle awards, given by a free-speech group to those it considers the most egregious violators of constitutional rights in the past year.

Bush led the list, compiled by the Thomas Jefferson Centre for the Protection of Free Expression, for authorising the National Security Agency to tap the phones of US citizens who make calls overseas.

The wiretaps were conducted without authorisation from a federal court.

The White House defended the warrantless wiretapping programme as necessary to fight terrorism.

http://hindustantimes.com/news/181_1673077,00050001.htm

[babylonsister]

1. Awww, finally dimson wins something!

:eyes: Couldn't go to a more deserving moran!

[tanyev]

2. And really, really earned it solely on his own merits.