The Raw Story | Judge gives go-ahead to lawsuit against Bush's bank transfer spying program: "A federal judge in Chicago last week rejected a motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed against a Belgium-based bank transfer clearinghouse that collaborated with an anti-terrorism spying program led by the US Department of Treasury. The judge's decision will allow two plaintiffs to press their case that the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) violated the Fourth Amendment and financial privacy rights of bank customers throughout the United States when it collaborated with president George W. Bush's so-called 'Terrorist Finance Tracking Program.'"
Hooray for that judge. That is what they are supposed to do, determine whether a law is in line with the constitution and to act as a check to the executive branch... Unfortunately, if it reaches Bush's cronies in the Supreme Court, the program will stand.
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