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Story picked up by Linda a member of the Rage Team.

FISA JUDGES SAY BUSH WITHIN THE LAWA panel of former Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court judges yesterday told members of the Senate Judiciary Committee that President Bush did not act illegally when he created by executive order a wiretapping program conducted by the National Security Agency (NSA).

A panel of former Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court judges yesterday told members of the Senate Judiciary Committee that President Bush did not act illegally when he created by executive order a wiretapping program conducted by the National Security Agency (NSA).The five judges testifying before the committee said they could not speak specifically to the NSA listening program without being briefed on it, but that a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act does not override the president’s constitutional authority to spy on suspected international agents under executive order.

“If a court refuses a FISA application and there is not sufficient time for the president to go to the court of review, the president can under executive order act unilaterally, which he is doing now,” said Judge Allan Kornblum, magistrate judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida and an author of the 1978 FISA Act. “I think that the president would be remiss exercising his constitutional authority by giving all of that power over to a statute.”

The judges, however, said Mr. Bush’s choice to ignore established law regarding foreign intelligence gathering was made “at his own peril,” because ultimately he will have to answer to Congress and the Supreme Court if the surveillance was found not to be in the best interests of national security.

The panel of judges unanimously agreed that the law should have been changed before now to deal with new threats from terrorists and new communications technologies, a point made by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat.

“It is confusing that if you take something off of a satellite it is legal, but if you take it off of a wiretap it’s not,” she said. “We need to include new technology.” Source

More of the media bias in action….why do I say that?

Because this was decided yesterday afternoon…how much have you heard about it on the news reports? This is the only article I have seen on the subject.

If they had decided that President Bush had pushed the law or broken the law it would have been covered on every single broadcast that came your way. It would have been thew headline of every newspaper out there.

But because it was decided in the Presidents favor the MSM is quiet as a mouse.

I almost forgot…there went another one of their (the liberal left) reasons for impeachment down the drain.

About Linda,

Linda has the ability to uncover stories more often than not avoided or left out by the media that has as much relavence as the next.

She is a deffinate extreme asset to the Rage Team.

Keep up the Good Work Linda  

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