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Posted on 09/29/2015 3:55:40 PM PDT by dayglored
One of Monica Lewinsky's former lawyers will be the first outside advisor to America's secret court that oversees NSA spying.
Preston Burton was chosen as the first of five advocates who will provide expert advice to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) when discussing whether to approve spying programs.
His first job will be to advise the FISC on whether the US government should be allowed to retain data past November 28, when the telephone storage program run by the NSA under Section 215 of the Patriot Act is officially shut down.
Burton has a lively roster of ex-clients, ranging from Monica Lewinsky to Washington DC madam Jeane Palfrey to a number of high-profile double-agents including Aldrich Ames (CIA), Robert Hanssen (FBI), and Ana Belén Montes (US Defense Department). As a result, he has the top security clearance that is a prerequisite for the court.
In an interesting twist, it was Ames' trial for providing American intelligence on Soviet agents to the USSR that led to the FISC being given the right to approve FBI searches of citizens' homes without the traditional search warrant.
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Burton's role and powers will be limited, however. He will be asked for his advice only if a case presents "a novel or significant interpretation of the law," rather than always being on hand to question the appropriateness of spying requests. The FISC is also not obliged to use any of its outside advocates even if the case is unusual; it can simply decide it doesn't need advice. And the court can withhold information from its outside advocates if it feels it is not "relevant."
Sounds like a great opportunity for him. Let’s hope he doesn’t blow it.
Ping.
That sucks.
Yeah, but apparently pretty well. It’s a legendary suck, ya know...
Miss Lewinsky IS a very pretty woman. - As a young woman, she was used by a “man” in the highest position offered by this country. - Twenty-one years old, immature & “in love” with the most powerful man in the world. - Bill, on the other hand, has retired as a still influential “elder statesman” while she has to struggle. - Clinton should have been run out on a rail. (He paved the way for 9/11 in my opinion.) - The House tried to do the right thing; but the “Senate Good Old Boys Club” let him slide. - Now, we have Shrillery and all her lies & deceit & plastic surgery to contend with.
Well said and true.
I hope Monica matures enough one day to realize that Linda Tripp saved her life.
I wonder if the Bent One ever looks Monica up for another go.....heck, maybe she has even taken care of her ‘dribble all over herself’ problem by now.
I agree -- my comment was meant sincerely. I am glad she recovered her poise and stature from the lows she hit some years ago (the press was most unkind to her). She's 42 now -- and looking (and apparently doing) quite well.
The Clintons are of course much older, but they show an awful lot more wear and tear, relatively speaking. That's what evil will do to ya...
Yep. Tripp was a wise woman. Those Clintons play rough.
I hope history treats her kindly—she is a good woman.
And I hope history treats Clinton with the same contempt as the traitors they both are.
She runs a Christmas/German gift shop in Virginia somewhere.
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