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...eavesdropping on foreign agents, in part, because the process is "cumbersome and burdensome," said Gonzales. Convinced that it wasn't necessary, the Bush Administration did not ask Congress to streamline the procedures to perform these wiretaps. Senators cited five recent examples when changes in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) were passed at the request of the White House. When asked, Gonzales argued, it wasn't necessary because the President's constitutionally granted powers, as well as the specific wartime authority granted after 9/11, allow the President to authorize these types of wiretaps, without a change of existing...
...legislative alteration to FISA would have “tipped off” terrorists as to the administration’s counterterrorism strategy, Moschella concluded...
Many politicians and legal scholars have questioned the legality of the warrantless domestic spying program run by the National Security Agency (NSA), asserting that it may violate the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which places strict limits on domestic eavesdropping without a warrant...
...debate between the two well-known scholars, which took place on the pages of a left-of-center magazine, The New Republic, incorporated questions of both legality and proper policy, with Posner concerned more with the program’s merits and Heymann with its conformity to the FISA statute...
...concluded that FISA is outdated, and that by perfecting the domestic spying program—so that authorities could only use the information in the pursuit of terrorism and not other crimes—the program would also be wise policy...