The FISA Act And The Definition Of 'US Persons'

Captains Quarters ^ | 12/17/05 | Ed Morrissey

[Valin]

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[Clara Lou]

Thanks for posting this!

[frankjr]

Great background post.

[Clara Lou]

I find it interesting that the Democrats keep repeating secret "surveillance of American citizens." How do they know who has been surveilled?

[pleikumud]

The headlines, if any, should read: BUSH DEFENDS AMERICA instead of the typical left-media BUSH SPIES ON AMERICANS.
If Bush wasn't President, we would have been attacked several more times since 9/11/01, and thousands more civilians here in the U.S. would have died. Perhaps hundreds of thousands.

[Wasanother]

TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 119

CHAPTER 119—WIRE AND ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS INTERCEPTION AND INTERCEPTION OF ORAL COMMUNICATIONS


I have read the complete chapter and numerous times it gives the Attorney General authorization to allow a tap as long as a judge is notified immediately after and who's to say they weren't? The FISA court is so secret that they can't even disclose if they were notified after the fact.

[PISANO]

Wait.......you are basing your OPINION of these warrantless searches ON FACTS!! You know that the Dims and MSM don't give a rat's a.s about FACTS. Stir the emotions, paint with a broad brush, scream about RIGHTS, rage over the President's abuse of power and never stop the childish negative SOUND BITES.

Of course if he didn't have these warrantless searches and the Brooklyn Bridge was blown to pieces by the terrorists, well then we can just BASH BUSH for NOT protecting us.

Both sides of the issue or should I say EITHER side of the issue is just as appropriate to the leftists commies American haters that we call Democrats and the Main Stream Media.

[Peach]

The ACLU's selection outrage and how Clinton spied on American citizens.

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1542539/posts

[Valin]

" How do they know who has been surveilled?


Great question!

[Valin]

ping

[Brilliant]

How do you know who it is until you listen to the call, though?

[Brilliant]

Personally, I think the President has the inherent constitutional power to do this irrespective what some statute might say. Congress can't restrict the President's constitutional power to defend the US from attack.

[airborne]

I could be wrong, but I'm starting to get the feeling that this may ba a trap for the Dems, possibly one they willingly walked into.

It may be, like the 'Rathergate' incident, that they wanted to nail Bush so badly, they leapt before they looked.

Just a gut feeling.

[johnny7]

Unfortunately the MSM doesn't rely on facts and discourages their use. All morning, Bush has been portrayed as illegally spying on US citizens... and that's what Joe & Jane Blow will believe.

[pleikumud]

Also, he has the "responsibility" to defend the U.S.
Bush has acted responsibly, unlike Klinton.

[Wristpin]

Why is it that the laymen on Free Republic can dig this stuff up and refute the attacks of the Dems better than the RNC?

[HawaiianGecko]

 

"I could be wrong, but I'm starting to get the feeling that this may be a trap for the Dems, possibly one they willingly walked into."

I personally don't think it's a trap, but it certainly looks like the edge of a cliff with the Democrats running open throttle towards it.

[airborne]

Why is it that the laymen on Free Republic can dig this stuff up and refute the attacks of the Dems better than the RNC?

That's what makes me so angry sometimes. That I don't have an answer to your question.

[HawaiianGecko]

 

"Why is it that the laymen on Free Republic can dig this stuff up and refute the attacks of the Dems better than the RNC?"

Oh, I imagine the RNC knows this better than we do in FR. It's just tough to shape post #1 into a sound bite palatable to the American public, or a bumper sticker that doesn't require the entire back door of a semi-trailer. ;)

[Wasanother]

I hope the Rinos run over that cliff with them.