Editorial: Haste makes a mess (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

[struggle4progress]

Last-minute legislation provides a legal framework for practices that should instead have been probed for illegality. These were not the "small fixes" promised.
From the Journal Sentinel
Posted: Aug. 6, 2007

~snip~ Congress needn't have acted so hastily. In so doing, it has essentially given legal validity to methods that it instead should have been probing more furiously to determine if they violated basic rights of privacy and due process. ~snip~

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=643014

[pansypoo53219]

1. still haven't explained WHY they can't get a fucking warrant

and i wanna know WHY.

[struggle4progress]

2. Secret Court Rebuffs Ashcroft: Justice Dept. Chided On Misinformation (2002)

Dan Eggen and Susan Schmidt
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, August 23, 2002; Page A01

The secretive federal court that approves spying on terror suspects in the United States has refused to give the Justice Department broad new powers, saying the government had misused the law and misled the court dozens of times, according to an extraordinary legal ruling released yesterday.

A May 17 opinion by the court that oversees the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) alleges that Justice Department and FBI officials supplied erroneous information to the court in more than 75 applications for search warrants and wiretaps, including one signed by then-FBI Director Louis J. Freeh. ~snip~

http://foi.missouri.edu/secretcourts/seccrtrebuffs.html


My guess is that BushCo got caught lyin once too often and doesn't really wanna show its face in FISA Court

[Patriot Abroad]

3. Zimbabwe also signed a new eavesdropping law . .

http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/library/news/2007/intell-070803-voa02.htm