Ha! If that article is credible, what that tells me is that Bush was asking for a shitpot of unreasonable or illegal wiretaps. If that court was rejecting them, then you KNOW they were bad since they approve everything.
On 1/19/06, Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:193393 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
