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[privacy] To Credibility: FISA Court to Govern Wiretapping Plan
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 19:39:33 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 So, I guess this akin to saying "Okay, we won't break the law anymore..." Via The Washington Post. [snip] The Justice Department announced today that the National Security Agency's controversial warrantless surveillance program has been placed under the authority of a secret surveillance court, marking an abrupt change in approach by the Bush administration after more than a year of heated debate. In a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales said that orders issued on Jan. 10 by an unidentified judge puts the NSA program under the authority of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, a secret panel that oversees most intelligence surveillance in the United States. Gonzales also wrote that the current NSA program will effectively be abandoned after its current authorization expires in favor of the new approach. [snip] More: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/17/AR200701170 1256.html Note: The Bush administration, and specifically Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, is sending mixed messages. As mentioned in this MSNBC/Associated Press article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16668110/ ...Gonzales also says that "...federal judges are unqualified to make rulings affecting national security policy." Checks and balances? What checks and balances... - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.2 (Build 4075) wj8DBQFFrntvq1pz9mNUZTMRApclAKCRtdKn18+ugE86OPdQTGCmku5KHwCgmjKR XwdmB1ME/OZ4nlR3fdl/rHo= =MnxJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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