If Clinton had been doing his job instead of getting one, we wouldn’t be in the mess we’re in now. To think that the government need to get a warrant to gather foreign intell indicates that you’re thinking more about blow jobs than you are protecting your fellow citizens. Go figure.

After all, if it’s “unreasonable” to listen in on phone conversations without a warrant when one end of the conversation is terrorist-connected, then surely in is unreasonable to search me, who just wants to make it back to the east coast to visit my family.

I think you meant this sarcastically but actually you are right on the money. There is no reason for you to be searched before going on a plane. Maybe if the people on the planes during the 9/11 tragedy had been armed with civil liberties and a few weapons, they might still be alive. Unfortunately only the terrorists had box cutters and that hideously small weapon put them in control.

Let the criminals run where they may, preferrably right into granny with her sawed-off shotgun under her shawl on the porch

http://baseballcrank.com/archives2/2006/08/warlaw_the_nsa.php

By now you’ve all already heard the story about United States District Court (Detroit) Judge Anna Diggs Taylor’s ruling on the NSA’s warrantless wiretaps program, where suspicious calls originating in the US but going out overseas are…

By now you’ve all already heard the story about United States District Court (Detroit) Judge Anna Diggs Taylor’s ruling on the NSA’s warrantless wiretaps program, where suspicious calls originating in the US but going out overseas are…

Se non vi fidate troppo di come stanno raccontando in Italia la sentenza di un giudice federale di Detroit, che ha dichiarato incostituzionale il “Terrorist Surveillance Program” voluto dall’amministrazione Bush dopo l’11 settembre, vi consiglio di…

I am way too angry to post on this story even when it broke yesterday, this is being appealed and anyone with a half brain would agree that this is a vital tool in tracking terrorists. A MUST, please put more ears on the phones A.S.A.P. I agree w ……

Problem is, kids, FISA, which is virtually never turned down, and which warrants can be gotten AFTER the actual search/eavesdrop, etc., demand a paper trail. And a secret one at that.

Absent a paper trail, we have exactly no idea whether the Gov’t is telling the truth about whom they are eavesdropping on. And the English arrest, which is starting to look like that crucial arrest in Miami a while back is seriousness, was all handled with, you know, warrants. Almost as if they had a constitution.

Not being a lawyer myself, I figured fisking Judge Anna Diggs Taylor’s opinion while pretending to know legalese might be a waste of your time. Luckily, there are plenty of smart legal minds in blogosphere that have already weighed-in and…

“No, the enemy and the rotten cowards are those who hate this president so much that they would do anything, including ignoring national security, for some bizarre thrill of disrupting any agenda of this administration.”

Luckily, no one on the right ever tried to disrupt the Clinton administration just for the bizarre thrill of it all.

I really think you are off. George Will, John Derbyshire, Mort Zuckerman and a host of conservative bloggers and pundits have spoken out against Bush’s power grabs. This is not Bush dementia syndrome, it’s called the American way of life, where our government is accountable to its citizens, and where it adheres to the Constitution we all love so much.