It appears that all the celebrating regarding the administration's cave on FISA may be premature.Ms. Wilson, who has scrutinized the program for the last year, said she believed the new approach relied on a blanket, “programmatic” approval of the president’s surveillance program, rather than approval of individual warrants.
Administration officials “have convinced a single judge in a secret session, in a nonadversarial session, to issue a court order to cover the president’s terrorism surveillance program,” Ms. Wilson said in a telephone interview. She said Congress needed to investigate further to determine how the program is run.
A blanket warrant issued to cover a program doesn't even sound remotely constitutional. Must be one of those liberal, activist judges on the FISA court that played along with the administration.
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Yeah, this sounded like horse pucky to me.
Funny how they always call anyone leaning left of Genghis Khan an "activist" judge, when the exact opposite is true.
It's the ones actively trying to get a promotion from Bush & Co that are re-interpreting law to fit Bush's corporate agenda.
Yeah, this sounded like horse pucky to me.
Horse pucky that the media ate up. The New York Times has a big editorial today praising the President's decision to comply with the law.
It's the ones actively trying to get a promotion from Bush & Co that are re-interpreting law to fit Bush's corporate agenda.
I agree. When they biatch about "activist" judges they don't mean those on the political right who bend and and twist the law.
Our government will not give back freedoms and checks/balances easily regardless of who rules the roost next. Unless people make more of a campaign issue of keeping their freedoms, they won't get them back.
Atwood said it best, there are two kinds of freedoms "Freedom TO and Freedom FROM." People don't seem to appreciate the difference these days. I believe the president already broke the law and needs to be tried for it, despite whatever legal wranglings and compromise occur now.
Exactly. People also seem to fail a basic understanding of the constitution itself. It's not a list of our rights. It's a list of the rights we as a people are granting the government.
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