From The Washington Post:
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit in Detroit, home to one of the largest Arab populations outside the Middle East, on behalf of scholars, lawyers, journalists and nonprofit groups challenging the National Security Agency's domestic eavesdropping program. It alleges that the program hindered communications by phone and e-mail between the plaintiffs and people in the Middle East. The Center for Constitutional Rights has a parallel case pending before a federal judge in New York.
Get it? The American Civil Liberties Union seems to be concerned that mainstream America might just not have a problem with the Feds tapping international phone calls made by suspected terrorist sympathizers within the U.S. Otherwise, why would they try to cherry-pick in favor of Arabs the demographic pool that will provide their jury... Arabs, who as a group are pretty much guaranteed to oppose this program more than anybody else?
Here's a crazy thought: Maybe the ACLU is trying to defeat this intelligence-gathering program—of which its own actions indicate that some preponderance of Americans approve if only out of a pure sense of self-preservation—because the ACLU isn't really on their side!
Hey, if it quacks like a duck...