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"So why bypass such a system?"

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Are you for real?!

This entire thread started out with the article, which pointed out that the FISA court denied the warrants in quite a number of cases.

As the article, excerpt of which I posted in posts 298 & 300, said, the President HAS the authority in the first place, he doesn't need to go through FISA.

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"This entire thread started out with the article, which pointed out that the FISA court denied the warrants in quite a number of cases."

There is more than one judge involved and historically they have agreed with the requests.

Why were these requests denied? The answer most here are coming up with is that the judge was a liberal activist, the other possibly is that the requests were not reasonable.

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the President HAS the authority in the first place, he doesn't need to go through FISA.

From everything I have read on this subject, you are sooooo correct. If nothing else is operative, he has the Constitutional authority as Commander In Chief to do whatever is necessary to wage a war. Thought that is what we were doing after 911? Didn't Bush throw out the old Clintoon model of "police action" and actually wage a war on terror?