[plain talk]

U.S. District Judge William Pauley wrote in his opinion issued Friday that the program "represents the government's counter-punch" to eliminate al-Qaeda's terror network.

Laudable goal but completely irrelevant here. The issue is how does the policy jive or not with the Constitution.

[2harddrive]

“rules NSA phone surveillance is legal, plain talk wrote:
U.S. District Judge William Pauley wrote in his opinion issued Friday that the program “represents the government’s counter-punch” to eliminate al-Qaeda’s terror network.
Laudable goal but completely irrelevant here. The issue is how does the policy jive or not with the Constitution.”

Agreed!

[mikrofon]

The issue is how does the policy jive or not with the Constitution

That's only if the Constitution is a living, breathing, rappin' document ....