Posted on 12/21/2005 5:49:40 AM PST by saveliberty
Think Robertson is trying to bug out before the truth really comes out. That way he'll be harder to pin down to what his roll was in the coming scandal?
I am sure I would be, someday.
I live near Huntington Beach..well, kinda...La Palma
LOL. Thanks for sharing.
Oh, they are being spied on. The DUmmie Funnies spies on them and hilariously takes their threads apart for entertainment purposes. I love to see flamed DUmmies in the morning! :o)
Kiteboarding looks fascinating.......
Hi----PT's Dad! You've got a great kid here! Thanks for raising him right!
All you have to shovel there is sand.
Nevermind... found the 11th judge.
I have Hilton, Kotelly and Robertson as the three. I can't find the newest list.
Found the amendment on the number:
SEC. 208. DESIGNATION OF JUDGES.
Section 103(a) of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1803(a)) is amended by--
(1) striking 'seven district court judges' and inserting '11 district court judges'; and
(2) inserting 'of whom no fewer than 3 shall reside within 20 miles of the District of Columbia' after 'circuits'.
History
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
Congress in 1978 established the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court as a special court and authorized the Chief Justice of the United States to designate seven federal district court judges to review applications for warrants related to national security investigations. Judges serve for staggered, non-renewable terms of no more than seven years, and must be from different judicial circuits. The provisions for the court were part of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (92 Stat. 1783), which required the government, before it commenced certain kinds of intelligence gathering operations within the United States, to obtain a judicial warrant similar to that required in criminal investigations. The legislation was a response to a report of the Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities (the Church Committee), which detailed allegations of executive branch abuses of its authority to conduct domestic electronic surveillance in the interest of national security. Congress also was responding to the Supreme Courts suggestion in a 1972 case that under the Fourth Amendment some kind of judicial warrant might be required to conduct national security related investigations.
Warrant applications under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act are drafted by attorneys in the General Counsels Office at the National Security Agency at the request of an officer of one of the federal intelligence agencies. Each application must contain the Attorney Generals certification that the target of the proposed surveillance is either a foreign power or the agent of a foreign power and, in the case of a U.S. citizen or resident alien, that the target may be involved in the commission of a crime.
The judges of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court travel to Washington, D.C., to hear warrant applications on a rotating basis. To ensure that the court can convene on short notice, at least one of the judges is required to be a member of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The act of 1978 also established a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review, presided over by three district or appeals court judges designated by the Chief Justice, to review, at the governments request, the decisions the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Because of the almost perfect record of the Department of Justice in obtaining the surveillance warrants and other powers it requested from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, the review court had no occasion to meet until 2002. The USA Patriot Act of 2001 (115 Stat. 272) expanded the time periods for which the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court can authorize surveillance and increased the number of judges serving the court from seven to eleven.
Thanks anyway.
Don't forget about the white vans! Yesterday they were afraid of white vans following them around because they post on DU! I'm thinking of buying a white van and just driving around a lot! Bwahahaha!
Oh well that just makes wading through all the BS even more worth it! Go W Go!
You agreed with Lindsey... wow.
Tell Allen lots of us at FR are ready to start the campaign... let's get moving. He can't do any better than announcing it on your show.
LOL !
Maybe that explains why I'm getting a weather map graphic on my windows player when I pulled up Tony's radio show
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