Michelle Richardson is a Legislative Consultant for the American Civil Liberties Union where she lobbies on national security issues. Before joining the ACLU, Michelle was counsel to then-Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr., and the House Judiciary Committee, where she specialized in national security issues, election reform, constitutional law and government oversight.

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Spy Lies: McConnell on FISA

Posted September 18, 2007 | 01:34 PM (EST)


Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell, with the help of the rest of the Bush administration, has been telling fibs to get controversial wiretapping legislation passed. The so-called "Protect America Act" -- or as we at the ACLU call it, the "Police America Act" -- and the wiretapping...

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