[7mmMag@LeftCoast]

Who has stated that in those cases the governmnet used 50 USC 1801 or 1802? I would assume they used laws already on the books and obtained the appropriate warrants. No one has said warrants were never issued.

[cwiz24]

I didn't say that warrants weren't issues for those two cases. My point was that people who are considered legal U.S. citizens (e.g., John Walker Lindh and Jose Padilla) can and do communicate with Al Qaeda overseas. Monitoring people like these two individuals would not be legal under the law cited by the original poster of this thread. It may be perfectly legal under another law, but not this one.