From: Monte Davis 

In the April _Atlantic_, James Bamford coversthe NSA wiretap story. He
begins with Judge Royce Lamberth, who was presiding justice of the FISA
court 1995-2002... i.e., the one that the FBI or NSA or... came to in the
middle of the night to get a secret warrant under FISA.

"Lamberth bristles at any suggestion that his court routinely did the
administration’s bidding. 'Those who know me know the chief justice did not
put me on this court because I would be a rubber stamp for whatever the
executive branch was wanting to do...' "

A few paragraphs later:

"Concerned about preventing future 9/11-style attacks, President Bush
secretly decided in the fall of 2001 that the NSA would no longer be bound
by FISA. Although Judge Lamberth was informed of the president’s decision,
he was ordered to tell no one about it—not even his clerks or his fellow
FISA-court judges."

Can you say "separation of powers"?

(No, you may not.)

Can you say "separation of powers"..?

No, you can't.

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