[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

And new applications were not forthcoming, the result being that, at least by the reckoning of one FBI manager who testified before the intelligence committees, "no FISA orders targeted against al Qaeda existed in 2001" at all. Not one.

Well....damn....that explains a lot.....

[Marine_Uncle]

"Well....damn....that explains a lot....." ,br>
Truly. We are in deep ass trouble. Much more then a lot of good folks can comprehend. These clowns in so many cases should never have been hired by our Intel and Law Enforcement groups. We have so many totally incompetent and dangerously mislead goons running things of critical importance it is simply pathetic.

[Peach]

And Ernest, another article detailed that the FISA court rejected or amended more applications during the Bush administration than it had during the previous FOUR administrations (which totalled 24 years). No wonder the president went around FISA.

[Peach]

Judge Lamberth, who sits on the FISA court, has ties to islamic extremists and rejected many FBI warrant requests, prior to 9/11.

FBI whistleblowers specifically mentioned him to Attorney General Ashcroft right after 9/11.

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