Posted on 12/21/2005 6:27:50 PM PST by NormsRevenge
But no-one ever resigned over what Bubba was up to.
Go figure.
Okay who is this guy U.S. District Judge James Robertson......???
1994 Clinton appointee
Robertson, James
Born 1938 in Cleveland, OH
Federal Judicial Service:
U. S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Nominated by William J. Clinton on September 14, 1994, to a seat vacated by George H. Revercomb; Confirmed by the Senate on October 7, 1994, and received commission on October 11, 1994.
Education:
Princeton University, B.A., 1959
George Washington University Law School, LL.B., 1965
Professional Career:
United States Navy Lieutenant, 1959-1964
Private practice, Washington, DC, 1965-1969
Chief counsel, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Jackson, Mississippi, 1969-1970
National director, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, DC, 1970-1972
Private practice, Washington, DC, 1972-1994
Race or Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
Ah Haa! He had his own little STAR CHAMBER™ going on http://www.mcsm.org/secretmeeting.html
Exactly what the pro-terrorists MSM and Democrats were hoping for...
I don't think evidence gathered against a US Citizen using this method would be admissible in court. You might be able to say that there is no expectation of privacy on an international call.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Perhaps we should be satisfied that if we prevent a devastating attack using the President's wartime powers, the legal mopping up operation will be messy. It will not mean that lives weren't saved and that the right thing wasn't done. We are having trouble prosecuting Massouwi, but he didn't get on another airplane.
Please read post #7 Link, Am I crazy? This the same guy?
After this got leaked, Rep Harman thinks the Administration didn't tell ENOUGH people????
Click the link at #7
During our tenure the Department learned that a Vietnamese citizen in the United States was sending packages to Paris through a courier who happened to be a CIA agent. In Paris the documents were delivered to an official of the Vietnamese government. We were asked to approve a warrantless search of one of the packages. On the basis of the information then available to us, we declined to advise the Attorney General that we should invoke the foreign intelligence exception and engage in warrantless physical searches of the packages if there was a reasonable expectation of privacy. We did, however, conclude that the specific package in the courier’s possession was not protected by any reasonable privacy expectation and a search even in the context of a criminal investigation would not require a warrant. We thus authorized the courier to open the package and inspect its contents. That inspection revealed that classified government documents were indeed being transferred to a Vietnamese official in Paris. On the basis of that information and other investigations, we subsequently advised the Attorney General to obtain the President’s personal approval of subsequent searches of packages that were, in our opinion, protected by a reasonable expectation of privacy.
For more, see:
http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2002_hr/091002bass.html
And yet I've read on this very forum of lots of judges who say that this is entirely legal.
Clintonista who tried to throw out Web Hubbell's cases.
Great quote here: Old Arkansas media hand Paul Greenberg has long had Robertson's number. In a 1999 column for Jewish World Review, Greenberg described the honorable judge as "one of the more prejudiced Clintonoids on the bench."
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