Breaking: FISA court will rule warrantless surveillance legal »
Posted By pc25 10 months, 1 week ago in NewsHmmm. This should really enrage the Left. The FISA court will make public a ruling that validates George Bush’s warrantless surveillance on international communications, including those with one terminus in the United States (via JWF):
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pc2510 months, 1 week ago
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todays NY Times
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/16/washington/16fis...
WASHINGTON — A federal intelligence court, in a rare public opinion, issued a major ruling validating the power of the president and Congress to wiretap international phone calls and intercept e-mail messages without a specific court order, even when Americans’ private communications may be involved.
“The Department of Justice is pleased with this important ruling by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review, which upholds the constitutionality of foreign intelligence surveillance conducted under the Protect America Act of 2007,” a Justice Department statement said. -
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pc2510 months, 1 week ago
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FTA
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In the end, though, the biggest beneficiary should be George Bush. He has been unfairly castigated as some sort of fascist for using the power he already had available to track terrorist communications and keep this nation safe. Plenty of people owe him a big apology — and the New York Times and Eric Lichtblau are first in line.
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nostalgia10 months, 1 week ago
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People who complain about this program have not followed it's history
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There were media reports on the Eschelon Program during the 1990's tellng us that the NSA was listening in randomly to phone calls
Aldrich Ames was arrested on 2-21-94 and subsequently convicted on information gathered by the Eschelon Program
Interception of international satellite communications began in the early 1970s, only a few years after the first civilian communications satellites were launched.
Echelon started full operations about 1980
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nostalgia10 months, 1 week ago
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People who complain about this program have not followed it's history
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There were media reports on the Eschelon Program during the 1990's tellng us that the NSA was listening in randomly to phone calls
Aldrich Ames was arrested on 2-21-94 and subsequently convicted on information gathered by the Eschelon Program
Interception of international satellite communications began in the early 1970s, only a few years after the first civilian communications satellites were launched.
Echelon started full operations about 1980
And who was President in 1980???? Carter! -
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Tcaros10 months, 1 week ago
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Bush's domestic spying violates the Constitution. Anyone with a brain knows that it's not about "fighting terrorism." These folks want to give a blank check to the intels.
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Does anyone remember the 1970's investigations of abuse by the CIA?
It's alot worse, and Bush has been working to give them a blank check.
If you left it up to the intelligence community or the FISA court the civil rights of many Americans would be violated.
The intels don't care about your rights. They will violate your privacy for revenge, silencing dissent, entertainment, or personal vendetta.
The next administration needs to reign in the abuse.
If we had "far reaching" oversight over the intelligence communities there would be less problems in the world.
They "create" problems to fit the solutions they want, for greed, power, and other illegal activities. -
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