From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Monte Davis wrote:
> 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.

Next you'll have us believing in a fictional concepts such as rights
somehow being enshrined by being written on a scrap of paper by long dead
blokes wot wore wigs.

Adam

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