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'WIRE' LAW FAILED LOST GI: 10-HOUR DELAY AS FEDS SOUGHT TAP TO TRACK JIMENEZ CAPTORS IN IRAQ
New York Post ^ | October 15, 2007 | CHARLES HURT, Bureau Chief

Posted on 07/11/2008 8:31:58 AM PDT by Doctor Raoul

'WIRE' LAW FAILED LOST GI

10-HOUR DELAY AS FEDS SOUGHT TAP TO TRACK JIMENEZ CAPTORS IN IRAQ
By CHARLES HURT, Bureau Chief

October 15, 2007



WASHINGTON - U.S. intelligence officials got mired for nearly 10 hours seeking approval to use wiretaps against al Qaeda terrorists suspected of kidnapping Queens soldier Alex Jimenez in Iraq earlier this year, The Post has learned.

This week, Congress plans to vote on a bill that leaves in place the legal hurdles in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act - problems that were highlighted during the May search for a group of kidnapped U.S. soldiers.

A search to rescue the men was quickly launched. But it soon ground to a halt as lawyers - obeying strict U.S. laws about surveillance - cobbled together the legal grounds for wiretapping the suspected kidnappers.

For an excruciating nine hours and 38 minutes, searchers in Iraq waited as U.S. lawyers discussed legal issues and hammered out the "probable cause" necessary for the attorney general to grant such "emergency" permission.

Finally, approval was granted and, at 7:38 that night, surveillance began.

"The intelligence community was forced to abandon our soldiers because of the law," a senior congressional staffer with access to the classified case told The Post.

"How many lawyers does it take to rescue our soldiers?" he asked. "It should be zero."

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alexjimenez; congress; democrats; elections; fisa; iraq; islam; mohammedanism; soldier; terrorism; treason; wiretap; wot
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1 posted on 07/11/2008 8:31:58 AM PDT by Doctor Raoul
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To: Doctor Raoul

I can’t post what I think about the Democrats and Hate America “peace groups” that rail about “illegal surveillence” with about being banned for life.


2 posted on 07/11/2008 8:33:17 AM PDT by Doctor Raoul (Fire the CIA and hire the Free Clinic, someone who knows how to stop leaks.)
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To: Doctor Raoul

My thoughts exactly.


3 posted on 07/11/2008 8:35:05 AM PDT by Loud Mime (Free the Refineries! - H.R. 2279 Must Become Law!)
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To: Doctor Raoul

Democrats have blood on their hands.


4 posted on 07/11/2008 8:37:12 AM PDT by AU72
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To: Loud Mime

‘zackly.


5 posted on 07/11/2008 8:37:50 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: Doctor Raoul

the ACLU- civil liberties for anyone BUT Americans...


6 posted on 07/11/2008 8:38:33 AM PDT by God luvs America (When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
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To: Doctor Raoul
Tragic! Nancy Pelosi you have their blood on your hands.
7 posted on 07/11/2008 8:41:07 AM PDT by McGruff (This is not the [insert name here] I knew.)
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To: Doctor Raoul

I really don’t want to sink to the left’s ‘derangement’ level but it’s becoming very difficult.

We don’t have to question their ‘loyality’ to the United States of America. We know where they stand.


8 posted on 07/11/2008 8:41:24 AM PDT by griswold3 (Al qaeda is guilty of hirabah (war against society) Penalty is death.)
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To: Doctor Raoul

Democrats like to see Americans die in Iraq. They hate this country and they hate the military. And they hope that high US casualties will provide the basis for propaganda by the MSM that will help to cause the US to be defeated and the Democrats to win politically.


9 posted on 07/11/2008 8:41:42 AM PDT by detective
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To: Doctor Raoul
To hell with FISA. Four separate US Appellate Courts have already ruled that the President has the authority to conduct warrantless surveillance in matters of foreign intelligence. And the FISA Court has ruled that FISA cannot encroach upon the inherent powers of the President to conduct such searches.

President Bush needs to tell Congress to go straight to hell on this. The Courts are already on his side. He needs to act like the Commander-in-Chief that he is.

10 posted on 07/11/2008 8:41:48 AM PDT by Hoodat (Obama's only connection to the descendants of American Slaves is that his muslim ancestors sold them)
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To: Doctor Raoul
Blame your fellow WHINY Americans, who follow the MSM faithfully and repeatedly vote en mass for the UnAmerican Democrat Party in every election.
11 posted on 07/11/2008 8:41:57 AM PDT by roses of sharon ( (Who will be McCain's maverick?))
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To: Doctor Raoul

And this is just one incident — how many others are there, where we lose American lives or are unable to prevent attacks, because the Democrats worry more about the rights of terrorists, than about saving the lives of our soldiers and other innocent lives.

This is what happens when Democrats are the majority in Congress — and just wait to see what happens if Obama becomes president.

Think of this in November.


12 posted on 07/11/2008 8:45:40 AM PDT by FocusNexus ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: Doctor Raoul

ping


13 posted on 07/11/2008 8:48:04 AM PDT by grb
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To: Doctor Raoul

Thank you, House and Senate Democrats, ACLU and fellow travelers.


14 posted on 07/11/2008 8:48:25 AM PDT by 3AngelaD (They screwed up their own countries so bad they had to leave, and now they're here screwing up ours)
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To: Doctor Raoul
The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint but is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clear, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices.

-- C. S. Lewis

15 posted on 07/11/2008 8:48:39 AM PDT by The Spirit Of Allegiance (Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
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To: Doctor Raoul
Outrageous!
16 posted on 07/11/2008 8:48:54 AM PDT by MaryFromMichigan
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To: FocusNexus

As far as the dems are concerned, Americans have the right to die. Terrorists have all the other rights.


17 posted on 07/11/2008 8:51:04 AM PDT by BykrBayb (www.lifeforlauren.org Þ)
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To: Doctor Raoul
"This is terrible. If they would have acted sooner, maybe they would have found something out and been able to find my son," said Jimenez's mother, Maria Duran.

Mz. Pelosi needs to have a personal meeting with Maria Duran and try to explain to her the vast importance of protecting the trial lawyers' ability to sue, bribe and subborn perjury in an effort to extract billions from telecom companies who were merely helping our government try and fight the threat of terror with wiretaps.

18 posted on 07/11/2008 8:52:18 AM PDT by BOBTHENAILER (One by one, in small groups or in whole armies, we don't care how we do it, but we're gonna getcha)
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To: Doctor Raoul

"WASHINGTON - U.S. intelligence officials got mired for nearly 10 hours
seeking approval to use wiretaps against al Qaeda terrorists suspected
of kidnapping Queens soldier Alex Jimenez in Iraq earlier this year..
A search to rescue the men was quickly launched. But it soon ground
to a halt as lawyers - obeying strict U.S. laws about surveillance -
cobbled together the legal grounds for wiretapping the suspected kidnappers.
For an excruciating nine hours and 38 minutes, searchers in Iraq waited as
U.S. lawyers discussed legal issues and hammered out the "probable cause"
necessary for the attorney general to grant such "emergency" permission.
Finally, approval was granted and, at 7:38 that night, surveillance began.
"The intelligence community was forced to abandon our soldiers because of the law,"
a senior congressional staffer with access to the classified case told The Post."


19 posted on 07/11/2008 8:52:26 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: AU72
Democrats have blood on their hands.

They have for as long as I can recall.

20 posted on 07/11/2008 8:52:57 AM PDT by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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