I agree but you have to do what you can to save lives.

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20051226-122526-7310r

WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- U.S. President George Bush decided to
skip seeking warrants for international wiretaps because the court was
challenging him at an unprecedented rate.

A review of Justice Department reports to Congress by Hearst
newspapers shows the 26-year-old Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Court modified more wiretap requests from the Bush administration than
the four previous presidential administrations combined.

The 11-judge court that authorizes FISA wiretaps modified only two
search warrant orders out of the 13,102 applications approved over the
first 22 years of the court's operation.

But since 2001, the judges have modified 179 of the 5,645 requests for
surveillance by the Bush administration, the report said. A total of
173 of those court-ordered "substantive modifications" took place in
2003 and 2004. And, the judges also rejected or deferred at least six
requests for warrants during those two years -- the first outright
rejection of a wiretap request in the court's history.


On 1/19/06, G wrote:
> The Catholic wing of Al-Qaeda of course.
>
> I'm sorry, but this is so ridiculous.  The NSA already has the right and the
> ability to eavesdrop on Americans...WITH a court approved warrant. There is
> absolutely no reason for the NSA or the Bush administration or ANYBODY to
> claim they have to circumvent this simple but vital step.
>
> You don't really want that, do ya Sam? Today its a president you might like
> and/or trust....tomorrow it might not be.
>
>
> > If Bin Laden is calling a US Citizen I hope NSA is listening in.
> > What Catholic groups are you talking about?
>

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