FISA Proves to be a Road Block
From UPI: Bush was denied wiretaps, bypassed them
The 11-judge court that authorizes FISA wiretaps modified only two search warrant orders out of the 13,102 applications approved over the first 22 years of the court’s operation.
But since 2001, the judges have modified 179 of the 5,645 requests for surveillance by the Bush administration, the report said. A total of 173 of those court-ordered “substantive modifications” took place in 2003 and 2004. And, the judges also rejected or deferred at least six requests for warrants during those two years — the first outright rejection of a wiretap request in the court’s history.
So let me get this straight, before Bush, they modified 2 out of 13,102 warrant requests. Since Bush they have modified 179 out of 5,645. Ask anyone who knows me and they will tell you I am not the smartest guy they know, but I think it is pretty safe to say, there is a problem here somewhere.
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