To: angkor
It still doesn't explain the fact that there are conceiveably completely legal U.S. citizens communicating with Al Qaeda (John Walker Lindh and Jose Padilla come to mind as examples). This law you cite does not make it legal for the U.S. to monitor them secretly.
57 posted on
12/19/2005 6:55:52 AM PST by
cwiz24
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To: cwiz24
This law you cite does not make it legal for the U.S. to monitor them secretly.FISA (The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) does allow for really easy warrants and secret wiretapping. I can't for the life of me understand why the Administration didn't just use FISA, instead of going the rout of this questionably legal Executive Order.
58 posted on
12/19/2005 7:05:54 AM PST by
Alter Kaker
("Whatever tears one sheds, in the end one always blows one's nose." - Heine)
To: cwiz24
Who has stated that in those cases the governmnet used 50 USC 1801 or 1802? I would assume they used laws already on the books and obtained the appropriate warrants. No one has said warrants were never issued.
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