"if somebody from al Qaeda is calling you, we'd like to know why."--Drinky McFelon.
Can we put an end to this nonsense?
NO ONE IS STOPPING YOU.
All you have to do is follow the rules, and the rules are stacked in your favor. You can start your snooping three days before you get a warrant. Warrants are authorized by a panel of judges, all of whom were named to fill this role by the late WILLIAM REHNQUIST. The court's office is IN the Justice Department building. Out of more than 18,000 applications, the court has rejected exactly FOUR. This isn't a hoop to jump through, it is a crack in a sidewalk that you don't even notice as you keep on walking. In fact, the FISA standard is considered by many to be so low that it may not comply with the 4th amendment, and yet the administration says without a second thought that a law providing even minimum oversight doesn't apply to them.
Look very carefully at what is happening--a president claims that an imaginary "war" allows him to ignore constitutional and legislative restrictions at his pleasure. Look carefully, and I hope you are frightened by what you see.
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Suggest you read Canada's AmericanThinker for truth about getting approvals. See http://www.americanthinker.com/comments.php?comments_id=4083
Truth? Out of context nonsense. I suggest you re-read it. And teri O'Brien is a grade A crackpot.
And, even if you believe the article, isn't it somewhat crucial that "an FBI official was misrepresenting petitions for taps on terror suspects"?
Of course, to even bring this up, during a summer when Bush got a memo telling him Bin Laden was going to attack inside the US, and he responded by clearing brush for a month, is absurd.
The point isn't necessarily that the FISA law is perfect, either, but that the President has a legal obligation to work with the other two branches of government to ensure that whatever steps are taken are legal and constitutional. See my post below for why.
Pete - what's really scary is how many in the media are flat-out missing this point. http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/opinion/columnists/guests/s_408996.html
Exactly, Doc.
The law requires so little and they were lying their way around it then and ignoring it now.
And Teri O'Brien is a major loon.
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