Thanks for weighing in there Chippy, but the court really has no say on how the Commander-in-chief of the military chooses to conduct intelligence gathering on the enemy in a time of war.
That's the way it should be, but this is PC-Liberal media-controlled 2006 America, and the rules bend to the polls.
I have concern, too, like others, that under the guise of a permanent-war-on-terror, the government COULD use this (the Commander-in-Chief-in-time-of-War) to overtake many civil liberties, but I believe that it NEEDS to be in place at this time.
We MUST have every intelligence tool possibly available in place to prevent and prosecute attempts to co-ordinate, plan, and/or carry out attacks on U.S. assets and citizens here AND abroad.
Keep in mind that if we have another useless socialist/liberal Democrat in the White House, we would be back to the Klintoon era of FBI file gathering, database building, and destruction of any semblance of personal freedoms by their opponents.....that's the problem that could come of un-limited authorization to the President.