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Posted by Morton H. Halperin
One would have expected a federal judge to be able to distinguish between what is lawful and what one might want to ask Congress to make lawful if the constitution permits.
I worked hard to get FISA passed in the 1970s because I believed that the government needed to conduct electronic surveillance for intelligence purposes and that it should be done pursuant to a statute and with the court involved as appropriate. The Ford and Carter administrations identified four situations in which a warrant should not be necessary (emergency, war for 15 days, certain embassy taps, and testing) and they were all included in the bill.
It is impossible to tell if some additional authority is needed since the administration not only did not ask for, but affirmatively said it did not want it. If after 9/11 NSA needs more authority under FISA or even some additional emergency warantless authority it should say so and we should have that debate.
We cannot have it until we know what they want. In the meantime we must insist that the law and the constitution be obeyed.
It would seem that what is being looked at is something that would never pass muster, for example spying on political opponents.
I think that most people have tried to find a less unpleasant explanation, even going so far as to be willing to accept simple disdain for legal mechanisms.
But, sometimes the simplest reasons turn out to be the most logical. This was true in the case of Nixon as well as Hoover's FBI, why not now?
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