Posted on 12/20/2005 8:28:57 PM PST by hipaatwo
Jurist Concerned Bush Order Tainted Work of Secret Panel
By Carol D. Leonnig and Dafna Linzer Washington Post Staff Writers Wednesday, December 21, 2005; Page A01
A federal judge has resigned from the court that oversees government surveillance in intelligence cases in protest of President Bush's secret authorization of a domestic spying program, according to two sources.
U.S. District Judge James Robertson, one of 11 members of the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, sent a letter to Chief Justice John D. Roberts Jr. late Monday notifying him of his resignation without providing an explanation.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Robertson, who was appointed to the federal bench in Washington by President Bill Clinton in 1994 and was later selected by then-Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist to serve on the FISA court, declined to comment when reached at his office late yesterday.
Clinton appointee
If there was no explanation, how does anyone know it was in protest.
Yo, Judge, don't let the door hit you on the butt on the way out.
LOL how else..UNNAMED SOURCES
Activist Judge throwing a tantrum? Why didn't he do this during Clinton's tenure?
Good riddance.
part of their strategy to keep this story going - they get a clinton appointee to walk - he will probably write a book now or an op-ed in the Times.
This judge is an extremist. He is one of the 11 judges. In the article it says he has been going against bush for a long time.
Other judges in the article aren't taking his stand.
Ping a ling
Now we know the leaker!
Will he join the bathhouse boys at the NYT now?
There's is no statement in this article which says why exactly he resigned.
He was concerned about Bush's acts, but nothing says that's why he resigned.
I understand all that.
all I am saying is - this isn't some "random" move, some heartfelt personal decision by this judge. its orchestrated, part of the plan. and this is a bold move, to get a FISA judge to "resign" like this.
the left is going all the way with this - they want impeachment.
Good. We don't want a bias liberal judge having a negative effect on the FISA process. Don't let the door bump you in the ass on the way out bozo.
There's is no statement in this article which says why exactly he resigned
Not my title. The compost prints what it wants, how it wants to say it whether it's in the article or not.
Secret????? Yeah, right...like Washington DC can EVER keep a secret
right, so now the media can assign whatever motives it wants to this resignation to advance their propaganda.
In a setback for the Bush administration, U.S. District Judge James Robertson found that detainees at the Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, may be prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions and therefore entitled to the protections of international and military law -- which the government has declined to grant them.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34519-2004Nov8.html
I would like to see how many of the other FISA judges were appointed by Clinton.
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