The ACLU’s Free Speech Double Standards
Here's an ACLU spokesmen commenting on a recent Supreme Court ruling regarding government whistleblowers (I posted on that ruling here):
Now here's some reporting on new standards the ACLU is thinking on imposing upon its board members:
Could it be that the ACLU is worried about loose-lipped board members divulging information that would undermine the group's ability to obtain its objectives? Sort of like how loose-lipped government officials undermine our intelligence community's ability to keep this country safe when they expose details of our anti-terror intelligence gathering programs to the media?
Hypocrisy, they name is ACLU.
(via John J. Miller)
"In an era of excessive government secrecy, the court has made it easier to engage in a government cover-up by discouraging internal whistle-blowing," said Steven Shapiro, legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union.
Now here's some reporting on new standards the ACLU is thinking on imposing upon its board members:
A lawyer in the New York state attorney general's office informally warned the American Civil Liberties Union that his office had concerns about proposed standards that would limit the group's board members from speaking publicly about policies and internal operations, according to three board members.
Could it be that the ACLU is worried about loose-lipped board members divulging information that would undermine the group's ability to obtain its objectives? Sort of like how loose-lipped government officials undermine our intelligence community's ability to keep this country safe when they expose details of our anti-terror intelligence gathering programs to the media?
Hypocrisy, they name is ACLU.
(via John J. Miller)
