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...Bush Administration is doing in the guise of tracking terrorists [Jan. 16]. Klein is out of touch with the U.S. mainstream. It's not just liberals who are objecting; many conservatives as well are concerned by the flagrant disregard of the law by Bush's approving wiretaps without a warrant or any oversight whatsoever by anyone outside the Executive Branch. Had the President followed the law, there would be no discussion about the wiretaps. If the investigations now under way indeed conclude that the wiretaps are illegal, approving them would be an impeachable offense...
Klein's criticism of the Democrats was way off the mark. Liberals want to track down the bad guys as much as Republicans or anybody else. But government officials have got to get a warrant before they wiretap...
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...
...crossed any boundaries we humans had envisioned for it. Jeanette Rodrigues Karnataka, India Unchecked Presidential Power Klein's criticism of the democrats was way off the mark [Jan. 16]. Liberals want to track down the bad guys as much as anybody. But government officials have to get a warrant before they start wiretapping! Klein surmises that a majority of Americans would favor the National Security Agency's bugging program "if its details were declassified and made known." Is he advocating blind trust in Big Brother, or does he know something the rest of us don't? Maybe someone should...
...case, Justice officials claim that the secret NSA program has always used the "probable cause" standard even when a FISA warrant hadn't been obtained. But that explanation doesn't hold water with some legal experts. Last week, General Hayden himself admitted that in cases where the NSA does not first go to the courts, "the trigger is quicker and a bit softer than it is for a FISA warrant." Putting it more bluntly, Philip B. Heymann, a former Clinton Administration deputy attorney general, says, "The only reason they are doing warrantless searches is because they want to do them...