Reply #75: Must be Illegitimate, or Would Have Gone to Court

[JPZenger]

Since there was a process in place under Federal law to secretly and quickly approve wiretap requests by a judge, and since the Federal law even allowed retro-active approvals, why didn't the Bush Administration ask for approval? All but 4 requests of the court in 26 years were approved.

The only answer is that the Bush Administration was doing wiretaps that they didn't even want a single judge to know about. Or, they were non-terrorism requests that they thought the judge wouldn't approve.

After 9-11, any judge would have approved any request that appeared to be connected to real terrorists. So, who exactly was the Administration spying upon?