DON'T BE FOOLED FISA ALLOWS 15 DAYS FROM DECLARATION ONLY.

[ddeclue]

Please watch out for our friendly Republican disinformation officers who are trying to convince us that FISA allows a 15 day warrantless search period during "times of war".

They just started a new thread a few minutes ago

This is a tremendously deceptive misquote of the FISA law.

The FISA law is EXPLICIT: 15 calendar days FOLLOWING A DECLARATION OF WAR BY THE CONGRESS. There is no way to spin this to mean 15 days after a warrant is issued or that a war grants the President special powers.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode50/usc_sec ...

US CODE TITLE 50 > CHAPTER 36 > SUBCHAPTER I > § 1811
§ 1811. Authorization during time of war


Release date: 2005-03-17

Notwithstanding any other law, the President, through the Attorney General, may authorize electronic surveillance without a court order under this subchapter to acquire foreign intelligence information for a period not to exceed fifteen calendar days FOLLOWING A DECLARATION OF WAR BY THE CONGRESS.

(Emphasis added).


Doug De Clue
Orlando, FL

[electropop]

1. So Bush's spying would have been legal...

IF Congress had declared war, and for a whole two weeks, back in 2003. More Puke BS.

[ddeclue]

3. Well actually for a whole 2 weeks back in September of 2001.

in the case of Afghanistan or 2 weeks in the spring of 2003 in the case of Iraq but in neither case was war declared so no get out of jail free card for George.

Doug

[Zen Democrat]

2. Sounds like they are desperately cluching to keep their "true believers"

And those "true believers" are known to swallow any preposterous lie. I think this info is for the wavering freeper, not the thinking world.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

4. Locking.

Please do not create new threads for the purpose of extending already existing flamewars into new threads.

thank you,
ncrainbowgrrl
GDP moderator