Suit Challenging Domestic Spying Dismissed?

From CNN.com:

A federal appeals court Friday ordered the dismissal of an ACLU lawsuit challenging President Bush's domestic surveillance program.


President Bush secretly instituted the National Security Agency's domestic spying program after 9/11.


The plaintiff -- a navy blue track suit -- had no legal standing to pursue its claims because the empty suit could not show it was targeted by the National Security Agency's warrantless spying program, the court decided in a 2-1 vote.


"It cannot establish that it's an 'aggrieved persons,'" wrote Judge Alice Batchelder, of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati, "Because it is neither a person nor capable of being aggrieved."

Alice, requesting anonymity because of the sensitivity of the case, added that "The suit can't even walk. The pictures are staged to make him -- er, it -- look more human, but most of the time this suit just sits laid out on a bed or folded over a chair. It's an insult to justice."

Reliable sources are whispering that this legal track suit might be the very same suit recently embroiled in a Chinese dry cleaning scandal. We would all be surprised to know that this suit was not a tailored two piece business outfit, but rather an advanced running accoutrement. Why does it need to go so fast and why doesn't it want the government to hear what its doing? All I can say is, if that suit thinks it got away clean -- think again. The wires are buzzing.

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