--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 8/19/06 6:31:29 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > "Silly red tape" is one of the lies the Republicans > have been pushing during the "debate." Nobody is > tied up in "silly red tape" by the FISA requirements. > The NSA is not inhibited from acting quickly on > incoming phone calls that are a matter of national > security. > > So that argument is a total crock. > > > > I put that "silly red tape" line in there just for you Spair. I knew it > would get a rise out of you. Actually the courts will decide whether it is > silly > or not. The President and his legal advisors say there is enough wiggle room > in the law that would allow him to bypass the warrants in time of war and > national security. Phone calls can trickle in and then they can flood in at > rate > that it would be necessary to have a judge 24/7 on site. Quite frankly while > you obviously don't trust Bush to be tapping only terrorist threats, I > personally don't trust a lot of federal judges and their sense of judgement. > We > constantly see judges letting criminals off the hook that go out and kill > somebody later. Do you really want a federal judge to determine whether > Abdul > Hafsomjammi calling from Teheran is not a threat or not thus not allowing > the > NSA to tape his conversation or intercept more of his calls? >
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