So President Bush’s extraordinary efforts to keep us safe were ruled to be legal after all the hand wringing. And the ruling has come just in time for Obama to pull back the program anyway in order to appease the hand wringing left. However, considering how the media worship Obama, their stance on this program will probably shift and Obama will be seen as the savior of America should he decide to keep the program going.
A federal intelligence court, in a rare public opinion, is expected to issue a major ruling validating the power of the president and Congress to wiretap international phone calls and intercept e-mail messages without a court order, even when Americans’ private communications may be involved.
The court decision is expected to be disclosed as early as Thursday in an unclassified, redacted form. It was made in December by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review, which has issued only two prior rulings in its 30-year history.
The decision marks the first time since the disclosure of the National Security Agency’s warrantless eavesdropping program three years ago that an appellate court has addressed the constitutionality of the federal government’s wiretapping powers. In validating the government’s wide authority to collect foreign intelligence, it may offer legal credence to the Bush administration’s repeated assertions that the president has constitutional authority to act without specific court approval in ordering national security eavesdropping.
This creates a problem for George Stephanopoulos who pushed Obama to appoint a special prosecutor for Bush’s warrantless wiretapping.
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“This creates a problem for George Stephanopoulos who pushed Obama to appoint a special prosecutor for Bush’s warrantless wiretapping.”
Somehow I don’t think so. Special Prosecutors are “Special” after all. Look at Patrick Fitzgerald. He KNEW early on in his investigation of Plamegate that Dick Armitage was the leaker. He KNEW that no crime was involved. He wasted millions of dollars of taxpayer money AFTER he had that knowledge…
… all so he could invent a “process crime” to throw at Scooter Libby.
You are right about that. Special prosecutors can investigate and interrogate until they come up with someone to prosecute.
The media is so invested in the “evil” of warrantless wiretaps that they’ll raise a token hell when (not if) Obama changes his stance on this issue completely. Then, after he explains to them the benefits of it in a very compassionate and deep-thinking tone they’ll take their cue and promote it until another Republican is in office.