--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 8/21/06 8:58:16 A.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > The FISA judges are appointed by the chief justice > of the Supreme Court. Are you suggesting a high > percentage of the 65% don't trust the chief justice > to make good appointments? > > (The chief justice, of course, having been himself > nominated by the president of the United States.) > > I think more importantly a large percentage of people probably > don't trust judges in general with their personal safety > especially when it comes to matters of national security.
And that's why such a large majority of people approve of the NSA program just as it is, right, because they don't trust the FISA judges? > All a judge would have to do is make one mistake > that could prevent a case from being busted wide open or > even an attorney presenting a case to the judge that didn't > quite make his case good enough for that judge to issue > the warrant and yet that call could have held key > information based upon information learned at a later date. Which is why we've had all those terror attacks in the U.S. since the FISA program was instituted, right? Oh, wait, you keep burbling about how *successful* it is. When you're writing a post, do you ever think about whether it's consistent with your previous posts? > What is the saying, too many cooks spoil the dish? > The NSA needs to do their jobs effectively. So you'd like to see all our spying and wiretapping handed over to the executive, with no oversight at all from the judiciary. Why not just chuck the judiciary altogether if it's so incompetent? And it's > not as if Bush or Karl Rove are down there listening to the conversations. > Professionals of both parties work there. And Bush never reads his daily briefings anyway. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
