[privacy] To Credibility: FISA Court to Govern Wiretapping Plan

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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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

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