In a message dated 8/21/06 8:54:14 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
attorney general has to approve an emergency
authorization and be sure that he can make a good
case for getting a warrant after the fact (within
72 hours).

Claiming that requirement *hampers* the institution
of a wiretap amounts to saying NSA wants to be able
to institute emergency wiretaps *without good reason*.
And when *hot numbers* pour in when the so called chatter increases, it could be dozens if not hundreds of calls that need specific attention and some of those calls may not seem to pan out the first time but give valuable information on the next call  that would explain information from the first call. Building a case  by attorneys to present to a federal judge when dozens or more calls are coming in at the same time over a period of days could be very distracting from the purpose of the program which is to figure out who or what is a threat and what is going down and could take days when it's not available. They call it "bureaucratic red tape" that does more harm than good. If the courts decide Bush doesn't have the authority to do what he is doing because of the unique nature of the situation, war on terrorism, no doubt the courts, at least the supreme court, will advise the legislature as to how the law needs to be changed to eliminate the red tape and make the program work effectively. Until then , you'll just have to be paranoid.
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