JMak
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The New York Times reports that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review - the specialized federal appeals court created by the 1978 FISA statute to rule on questions involving national security surveillance - has reaffirmed that the President of the United States has inherent constitutional authority to monitor international communications without court permission.
Yeah, it may... :roll:
Translation: it does offer legal credence to the administration's assertion of such constitutional authority.
h/t to Andy McCarthy at NRO.
A federal intelligence court, in a rare public opinion, issued a major ruling validating the power of the president and Congress to wiretap international phone calls and intercept e-mail messages without a specific court order, even when Americans’ private communications may be involved.
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"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."
Yeah, it may... :roll:
Translation: it does offer legal credence to the administration's assertion of such constitutional authority.
h/t to Andy McCarthy at NRO.