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SHRED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-19-06 11:20 AM
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Since FISA doesn't slow or stop...
...the spying on terrorists, and has been updated 5 times since 9/11 to accommodate the changing times:

Why does the Bush Administration refuse to follow it?
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BlueEyedSon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-19-06 11:23 AM
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1. because no judge would allow them to spy, the way they're doing it
or

it's a test to push the boundaries of "unary executive" power
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SHRED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-19-06 11:35 AM
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2. A freeper responds and then I reply
From another board on this same topic.

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Quote from a freeper on Today at 8:28am:
"Because they don't want the enemy to know everything they are doing........please try and get this point. Anything we do out in the open they know about dude........it is like broad casting all of our secrets like the traitor that leaked this whole deal.............Good grief...........they are monotoring us all the time fool........open your eyes for crying out loud."




Me:
FISA court alerts the enemy?
That's news to me.
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BlueEyedSon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-19-06 12:32 PM
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3. FISA courts are secret, the only people who are informed of the
Edited on Sun Feb-19-06 12:42 PM by BlueEyedSon
surveillance are the FISA judge panel (3 or 5 justices, i forget). Is one of our FISA justices an al Qaeda operative? Just goes to show how fucking stupid most freepers are.
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