Wednesday, January 04, 2006

GOPer Fred Thompson on FISA in 2001

Yes, I am referring to that tv Dist Attorney Arthur Branch on Law & Order when I speak of former TN Sen Fred Thompson... but check out what the former GOP Sen had to say about FISA back in '01: "FISA was designed to strike a balance between the govt's need for intelligence info to protect the natl security and the protection of individual privacy rts...The Senate committee report provided that the basis for this legislation was the understanding that even if the Pres had an "inherent" constitutional power to authorize warrantless surveillance for foreign intelligence purposes, the Congress had the power to regulate the exercise of this authority by legislating a reasonable warrant procedure governing foreign intelligence surveillance." pg 6 of the PDF entitled FBI Intelligence Investigations: Coordination Within Justice on Counterintelligence Criminal Matters is Limited (July 2001) (GAO-01-780). I think this adequately sums up the Bush approach to this issue: " "Legal problems about sharing info between intelligence and criminal prosecution? Fuck it. We won't get warrants. Judges won't give us legit warrants where our info is tainted? Fuck it, we won't let judges know anything about it. Can't prosecute people where the evidence is warrantless? Fuck it. We won't prosecute them, we'll just throw them in cells. People really won't like the illegal warrantless part of it? Fuck it. We'll just lie to them." Welcome to Orwell's 1984.
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