Friday News Dump? Report showing *'s wiretapping not so legal...

[sabra]

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=a_D_1dytzk6Y&refer=us

Congressional Report Questions Legal Justification for Wiretaps

Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush's assertion that he didn't need congressional approval to authorize wiretapping without warrants isn't ``well grounded'' in law, according to a non-partisan congressional report.

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the 1978 law that created a special court to evaluate administration wiretapping requests, doesn't exempt a National Security Agency program Bush authorized, according to a Congressional Research Service report.

``It appears unlikely that a court would hold that Congress has expressly or impliedly authorized the NSA electronic- surveillance operations here under discussion,'' the 44-page report said.

[MADem]

Tricky, naughty mouse!!!!!!

[MADem]

1. "not well-grounded"--is that a nice way of saying friken illegal as hell??

Of course, Monkeyking wipes his ass on the CONSTITUTION...so he ain't gonna git too riled about some steeenkin' Congressional Report now, is he?

[Blutodog]

4. I don't need no Stinkin Constitution!!

Monkeyboy wipes his ass with a copy of the constiution daily. He could care less if anybody tries to hold him to something so minor as the LAW. The LAW is for losers and subordinates not KINGS & EMPERORS like George!! You can see in his smirking face what he thinks about the Law. Like a typical schoolyard bully with his gang around him his attitude is ..."SO what are any of you punks going to do about it?"

[texastoast]

6. Bush = Nixon

Howdy Blutodog! Welcome to DU!

:toast:

[C_U_L8R]

2. In the wise words of Astro...

Ruh-Roh !!

[Al-CIAda]

5. 'Tralfaze'?

[jody]

3. The CRS report is at the link below.

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/intel/m010506.pdf

[BuyingThyme]

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