Mischievous lawyers constantly erode America’s ability to combat the Jihad. The American Civil Liberties Union leads the way. A simple Google search yields headlines like these:

ACLU Defends Senator Larry Craig–The Republican Perv
ACLU Defends The Right To Fly Foreign Flags Above Old Glory
ACLU Battles Gideon Bibles
ACLU Defending Terrorist’s Communications
ACLU Defends Nazis’ Right To Burn Down ACLU Headquarter (warning: loud audio)

The last link will make you laugh; it is from the Onion, of course.

In Israel, no military decision is too trivial for the activist lawyers on the Supreme Court. They rule on when, where and how the IDF can attack the enemy. They even overrule the architects designing the Freedom Fence, known to some as the Apartheid Wall.

The High Court of Justice Tuesday ordered the state to redraw, partially dismantle and rebuild the route of a 1.7 kilometer section of the West Bank separation fence, which was built on land belonging to Bil’in, a Palestinian village which has become a focus of opposition to the barrier.

For nearly three years, the fence has been at the focus of weekly demonstrations at Bil’in, punctuated by violent confrontations between protesters and soldiers and police deployed at the site.

The existing fence route is built around a part of the Matitiyahu East neighborhood of Modi’in Illit settlement. The government had argued that the route was necessary to protect residents of Modi’in Illit, and completed the section of fence that cut through Bil’in despite the protests.

In the latest lawyer horror story, it was discovered that in 2005 State Department lawyers rejected Blackwater’s request to install cameras in vehicles that the company uses to guard convoys of contractors in Iraq. The lawyers were reluctant to infringe on the terrorists’ privacy rights.

The State Department cited legal concerns in turning down a 2005 request from Blackwater USA to install cameras in official U.S. motorcades protected by employees of the security contractor in Iraq, The Washington Times has learned.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ordered cameras to be placed in Blackwater vehicles earlier this month, following a Sept. 16 shooting incident in Baghdad, in which the firm’s agents are accused of killing as many as 17 Iraqi civilians.

But Blackwater officials said the company first asked the State Department’s law-enforcement arm, the Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS), to take that step on May 17, 2005, “in response to a false accusation against one of our teams in Baghdad.”

A State Department spokesman said on successive days that he was not aware that such a request was ever made, and DS officials asked for more time to research the case.

But internal Blackwater documents from that time report that David Brackins, a DS agent and deputy regional security officer at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, had agreed that cameras would be useful and had endorsed the request.

Blackwater employees began looking into camera prices and found “a package deal for a vehicle video system called Dash Hound 1,” one of those involved wrote in a message to his colleagues. Another employee suggested “video front and back of the lead and follow vehicle, based on the amount of attacks that are conducted from the rear.”

The company considered the possibility that the cameras could be used to provide evidence against its guards in Iraq but determined that, on balance, they would work to the company’s advantage. It also planned to use the footage for training purposes.

However, a DS official in Washington, Paul Nassen, called the company on May 18 and asked that it “stand down,” because the legal department “had some issues” with the proposal and was “not ready to incorporate it into the contract,” according to an e-mail message from Blackwater to its employees that same day.