[hipaatwo]

OH FOR CRYIN OUT LOUD ANOTHER LEAK!

[onyx]

Have a look at this!

Sorry, I hit private message in error.
Ignore the mail...lol.

[Mo1]

He alerted Kollar-Kotelly, who complained to Justice, prompting a temporary suspension of the NSA spying program, the sources said.

They had the program shut down????

[bpjam]

Yep, this story reaks of politically motivated leaks to try to spin the issue in the press. Somehow, when these judges were pissed off that Clinton was inventing new "constitutional rights" like Secret Service Privilege we didn't get a single leaked story to the NYT or WaPo questioning how illegal those claims were and how the constitution was being bastardized.

But now, a few judges are whining because we are wiretapping terrorists? Hey, here's an idea. The WH just doesn't bother to go to the FISA court for any reason in the future. That would solve everybodies problem. The judges don't want 'tainted' evidence in FISA application and the WH doesn't want to have to submit to FISA for every freaking thing it does. Sounds like an easy solution is just to skip FISA unless we are working on a criminal case and the evidence needs to be admissible.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks for the ping!.... Hugh Hewitt blog is posting some comments on this and interviewing some legal folks. First comment here:

One Judge and the National Security
by Hugh Hewitt

Second here:

U.S. District Court Judges Royce Lamberth and Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, Part 2
by Hugh Hewitt
February 9, 2006 09:09 AM PST

Third here:

Judges Royce Lamberth and Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, Part 3
by Hugh Hewitt
February 9, 2006 04:59 PM PST

*************** From the Blog *************************

I interviewed Professor Jonathan Adler of Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Professor Erwin Chemerinsky of Duke Law School and Professor John Eastman of Chapman University Law School about the conduct of the two chief judges of the FISA court. All three are troubled by the allegations made in the Washington Post article.

Transcripts of these interviews will be posted at Radioblogger.com later in the day.