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Originally Posted by aMFliberal Well, call me crazy but I searched FISA and came to the Cornell Law School site at this link: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/ht..._50_10_36.html
I believe the type of surveillance in question is electronic, so if you go to the link above, then click on Subchapter I - Electronic Surveillance.
When you get there you see the definitions and it outlines the procedure for electronic surveillance and using the information. The procedure is in fact how you described it in your post. What I am seeing here, however, is a procedure for foreign electronic surveillance. The chapter is as titled in the first link "FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE". So assuming Bush followed the procedure, wouldn't he still be breaking the law? Because his legal justification for electronic surveillance on United States citizens is from a chapter in the U.S. Code titled "FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE". | Indeed, but the people he's surveilling are people who are calling flagged countries. Any sort of sweep is going to yield a lot of garbage, and then a computer program sorts out most of that, then you have a person sort the remaining stuff that the computer can't sort out. Unless you have some sort of business in Iran, I don't think you'll be spied on. If your call gets accidentally picked up, it sucks but it's most likely deleted before anyone even sees it. I mean, unless you commonly have conversations that include the word BOMB and TERRORIST and other flags that the program picks up on.
My concern would be with him specifically monitoring citizens, rather than flagging calls that go to Iran. If the opposite of pro is con, what is Congress? |