Reply #6: Didn't the original FISA already include a 48 hour exception to the warrant requirement?

[guruoo]

If I remember correctly, the Bush adm. main argument for eliminating the warrant requirement was that it simply took too long to get a warrant.
However, at that time, the argument was undermined by the fact that original FISA already allowed that under 'exceptional circumstances', a President could authorize a wiretap to exist for 48 hours before a warrant was approved by the FISA court.

Am I recalling this correctly?
:shrug: