But no-one ever resigned over what Bubba was up to.
Go figure.
Okay who is this guy U.S. District Judge James Robertson......???
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.
After this got leaked, Rep Harman thinks the Administration didn't tell ENOUGH people????
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.
For example, we heard someone, UNKNOWN, discussing destruction of the Brooklyn Bridge.
We didn't know who it was but we got on the bridge and caught some ba$tard with bolt cutters.
Their method wasn't sophisticated enough to work but once they realized we were on to their scheme, that was the end of their plans.
Perhaps they might get off.. but thats still better than even one building being toppled. They better keep their nose clean the rest of their lives.
"unprecedented resignation from the government's spy court by U.S. District Judge James Robertson..."
OMG! It's the first time in history that a US District Judge has resigned! I did not know that. I guess Bush must really be extreme. </sarc>
Oh, somehow I don't think they're relying on this information for court cases.
Robertson has been on this panel of judges for some time now. He is just now having doubts about the legitimacy of these warrant-less searches?
Yeah... Right...
There are NO domestic wiretaps. Can't be very good legal experts if they can't even get the false NY Times story correct.