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To: Sam Hill

why have FISA warrants if you're not gonna use them?
I read somewhere that 758 were applied for and the same # granted, so why not go through the warrant process?

just wondering.


14 posted on 12/19/2005 11:50:02 AM PST by Rakkasan1 (Peace de Resistance! Viva la Paper towels!)
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To: Rakkasan1

"just wondering"

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1543471/posts

Did you listen to press conference today?

Just wondering . . .


37 posted on 12/19/2005 12:45:44 PM PST by Cap Huff
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To: Rakkasan1
>>>just wondering. <<<

It's got to do with the "time criticality" of information.

If you pick up a terrorist and go through his cell phone directory and get a bunch of numbers, you'd like to be able to put taps on those numbers....before word gets out that those numbers have been comprimised.

If you wait even a day, word will get back through other terrorists in the cell that so-and-so was nabbed and "they got his cellphone".

53 posted on 12/19/2005 1:23:37 PM PST by HardStarboard
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