To: sinkspur
I haven't heard anything about this ruling yet, but I am 100% confident anyhow that a federal judge did not rule that NSA surveillance is unconstitutional. I am certain that what you mean is that a federal judge ruled that warrantless NSA surveillance is unconstitutional.
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08/17/2006 9:10:50 AM PDT by
AntiGuv
("..I do things for political expediency.." - Sen. John McCain on FOX News)
To: AntiGuv
I haven't heard anything about this ruling yet, but I am 100% confident anyhow that a federal judge did not rule that NSA surveillance is unconstitutional. I am certain that what you mean is that a federal judge ruled that warrantless NSA surveillance is unconstitutional. Unfortunately surveillance NSA-style is very often of the take-no-prisoners type. They collect it all and then search for key words and phrases. You cannot get a warrant against a single target for this type of surveillance because you looking at the full database of all the calls. Assuming that they find something of interest they look a little closer. There could easily be hundreds of thousands of such events every month (I'm guessing). Look harder and cut these down to a few thousand. Look harder and get them down to a hundred or less and off you go to the FISA court to get your warrants. If you kill the program at the top you will kill it at the bottom.
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