FISA Court Prevented Al Qaeda Taps Before 9/11

Sweetness & Light ^ | December 27, 2005 | N/A

[Peach]

http://www.gordonthomas.ie/122.html

[kcvl]

(Washington, D.C.) On Friday, June 30, 2000, the Honorable Royce C. Lamberth will hold a hearing to discuss the schedule for the Clinton-Gore White House to produce e-mail in the burgeoning e-mail scandal,

[kcvl]

After an investigation requested by Judge Lamberth of possible perjury by Health Czar Ira Magaziner, Eric Holder, U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, decides not to prosecute.

[kcvl]

Al Gore says a fund-raiser at a Buddhist temple was a "community outreach event." An Indonesian gardener is reported to have given $450,000. Judge Lamberth sends federal marshals to serve a subpoena on Mr. Huang, who evades them for several days before appearing for deposition.

[FreedomPoster]

Thanks.

Interesting thread developing here.

[Peach]

Disorder in the Courts (FISA) was an interesting thread too; particularly after post #34. Lots of info on Lamberth.

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1547743/posts

[Sam Hill]

He was a very busy bee in those days. I always thought of him as kinda cranky, but sort of a conservative.

I wonder if he is trying to "grow in stature" for the Georgetown set by standing up to Bush.

Most of the stuff I see from him is how he is insisting he was no rubber stamp on the FISA court.

Which is how the media works. They hound you to get you to change.

[Crim]

Wow...same here...right down to the kid count...

You work for the NSA?

*Grin*

[eyespysomething]

(I got this from Lexis Nexis)

The Record (Bergen County, NJ)

August 26, 2000, SATURDAY; ALL EDITIONS

SECTION: NEWS; Pg. A9

LENGTH: 210 words

HEADLINE: FEDERAL JUDGE WON'T DROP WHITE HOUSE E-MAIL CASE

COLUMN: COURTS

SOURCE: Wire services

BYLINE: FROM NEWS SERVICE REPORTS

DATELINE: WASHINGTON


A federal judge will hear testimony next week from a former White
House counsel in a case involving thousands of lost Clinton
administration e-mails.

U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth on Friday denied a government
request to end the seven-month e-mail inquiry, saying he wants to hear
testimony from former White House counsel Charles Ruff. Ruff is
scheduled to testify Monday.

A computer glitch in 1998 prevented thousands of incoming messages
from being archived. As a result, they were never reviewed by White
House lawyers to determine whether they should be turned over to
investigators in cases including the Monica Lewinsky scandal,
Whitewater, and campaign fundraising.

Judicial Watch, a Washington-based legal organization seeking to
unearth the e-mails, wants to question Ruff as well as John Podesta,
President Clinton's chief of staff, and attorney Virginia Apuzzo, 1 the
former assistant to the president for management and administration.

Judicial Watch has accused White House officials of dragging their
feet to delay production of e-mails until after the November election.

It has also said the administration has kept Lamberth in the dark about
progress in retrieving the lost e-mails.

[kcvl]

OT - MEMORIES...



Iraq as Scapegoat

snip


Speaking with reference to Saddam Hussein shortly after the bombing commenced, State Department spokesman James Rubin told reporters, "There is no end in sight for this pattern of obfuscation, obstruction and outright violation." He may well have been referring to his employer. Even by Bill Clinton’s standards, the 15-minute national address announcing "Operation Desert Fox" was a remarkable exercise in dishonesty. "We acted today because, in the judgment of my military advisers, a swift response would provide the most surprise and the least opportunity for Saddam to prepare," lied the President. In fact, the possibility that Mr. Clinton would launch an attack on Iraq to pre-empt impeachment hearings was discussed by commentators and pundits days in advance of the actual raid. For example, Tim Russert, host of NBC’s Meet the Press program, broached the possibility of an attack during a December 13th interview with House Whip Tom DeLay (R-TX).

The December 17th Washington Times, quoting "authoritative sources" at the Pentagon, reported that the White House "notified the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Sunday [December 13th] that President Clinton would order air strikes" against Iraq — contradicting the President’s account that he acted on the recommendation of his military advisers. In fact, one Capitol Hill source told the Times, "I have had senior flag and general officers question the timing [of the raid].... I have had senior military officers laughing. I hate to say that.... Why now? He hasn’t built a coalition. He hasn’t done anything. Why this timing?" The answer to this rhetorical question is found in the legal phrase res ipsa loquitir: "The thing speaks for itself."

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After the bombing commenced, National Security Adviser Sandy Berger admitted, "There’s no artificial deadline for this action," and Defense Secretary William Cohen added that he would not "set any time frame" for the operation: "We intend to carry out the mission, [however] long it must take." Sure enough, the bombing lasted well into the beginning of Ramadan.


http://tinyurl.com/9d6ng

[eyespysomething]

You're so sweet!!

(-8

[kcvl]

War Against Impeachment


Tripp Talk

Another challenge for the Clinton spin control ministry was provided by the December 14th sworn deposition from Linda Tripp regarding the "Filegate" scandal, in which Clinton Administration operatives illegally obtained more than 900 personal FBI files on potential political opponents. In her videotaped testimony before U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth, the much-maligned whistleblower described how assistants to White House counsel William Kennedy and late White House counsel Vince Foster entered FBI files into the White House database — referred to ominously as "Big Brother."

Tripp recalled discussing "Filegate" with Monica Lewinsky at the Pentagon in autumn of 1997. "I told her about what I considered to be unscrupulous behavior, that there seemed to be no moral absolutes, and that there was no sense of right or wrong [in the Clinton Administration], and I cited Filegate as one of those instances," testified Tripp. Her testimony was punctuated by the frequent interruptions of Elizabeth Shapiro, an attorney for the Justice Department and the White House, who pelted interrogating attorney Larry Klayman with objections and harassed Tripp with vague threats about disclosing "privileged" information. At one point Klayman protested to Judge Lamberth that Shapiro was attempting to feed testimony to Tripp.



http://tinyurl.com/9d6ng

[Sacajaweau]

Peach....The FISA site itself has notice that a few of the warrants were sent back to the AG...and corrected or revised. We're likely talking legal technicality nit-picking , i.e.,explain yourself better.

[SittinYonder]

You work for the NSA?

LOL ... it's just knowing your audience. Other than the kid count, I probably pegged 90 percent of Freepers, and the kid count probably gets 30 or 40 percent.

[Peach]

You're probably right.

I did think it was interesting that this article said that the court rejected 6 (?) warrant applications. Outright rejections for the first time in their history.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/253334_nsaspying24.html?source=mypi

[Diddle E. Squat]

Yes, Judge Lamberth used to be a hero around here. Perhaps we'd be wise to hold off on throwing him under the bus as a "liberal judge".

Judge Lamberth strikes down discriminatory Army promotion policy

JUDGE LAMBERTH VINDICATED: JAIL FOR CLINTONS, GORE?

Federal Reserve instructed to preserve documents{ byJudge Royce Lamberth }

American Indians Are Upheld on Accounts (MY TITLE: D.C. CIRCUIT UPHOLDS JUDGE LAMBERTH)

Federal Judge (LAMBERTH) Rejects Block of Fla. Electors

JUDGE LAMBERTH CONTINUES E-MAIL TRIAL WITH TESTIMONY OF EARL SILBERT

LAMBERTH WARNS JUSTICE DEPARTMENT -- E-MAIL HEARINGS COULD END TOMORROW

EXCLUSIVE -- JUDGE LAMBERTH CALLS BETH NOLAN TO THE STAND

Court to Hear Indian Accounts Case (Clinton-Gore Appeals Lamberth Ruling)

CLINTON-APPOINTED JUDGES CONSPIRED TO REMOVE LAMBERTH FROM TRIPP CASE

Federal Judge {Royce Lamberth}: I'll Get Mail

Obstruction hearings ordered by Lamberth: Judge schedules new probe in White House e-mail fiasco

Judge: White House withheld information/Lamberth chews out lawyers for misleading court, Congress

USDJ Royce C. Lamberth: Release records on Tripp ~ The Washington Times

Judge Lamberth is mind-boggled That Pentagon Failed To Release Letter

Federal Judge to Keep Oversight of American Indian Trust Accounts (Judge Lamberth)

Judge Lamberth Scolds Establishment Judges

[deport]

FISA and FISA Review Court opinions

Go down to May 17.. Don't how this plays if at all in the issue of Islamic ties.

[Peach]

The FISA Court also said the powers given to criminal investigators by Ashcroft might allow the government to illegally use intelligence information in criminal cases. It noted that the Department of Justice, under the Clinton administration, had abused the FISA process and misled the court at least 12 times and that the government had admitted FBI officials had provided erroneous information to the court on more than 75 requests for warrants and wiretaps.

U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth signed the ruling, which wasn't released until August by his replacement, Presiding U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly. It was the first-ever published opinion by the FISA Court.

Upon the ruling's release, the Justice Department filed an appeal citing the FISA Court's failure to consider the expanded intelligence sharing powers legalized under the Patriot Act. The Department of Justice also argued that the May 17 ruling violated the Constitutional separation of powers between the judiciary and executive branches.

So Lamberth is gone from the FISA court. Good. And it's interesting they published an opinion for the first time ever. Sounds like there are more than one sympathizers of some sort on the court.

[deport]

From the link I provide up above....

On Nov. 18, 2002, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Court of Review, convening for the first time ever, overturned the lower FISA Court's May 17 ruling. The Court of Review said that Attorney General John Ashcroft's guidelines did not, in fact, violate FISA law or the Constitution, as the FISA Court had ruled.

FISA Membership .. 2005

[p23185]

Let the Congresscritter hearing commence. That ought to tie everyone up just long enough for another islamofacist terror attack on a major city. They have to be laughing and laughing at us.