Reply #35: Uh, "no one questions the process?" Politely disagreeing there. [View All]

[Kagemusha]

Seems to me that since we have no idea what the warrant authorized a search for, the entirety of this issue, from start to finish, has been nothing more than questioning the process, as well as condemning it, lambasting it, cutting it into mincemeat, baking it and feeding it to the dogs. Not that the Justice Department was wrong in this case, but that it would be equally wrong in ALL cases to search like this, for ANY reason, and that a judge's signing off is absolutely 100% irrelevant.

Certainly one can make that argument. 90% of the people responding to this thread have done just that.

My dissent is based on not coming anywhere close to comprehending how this federal judge would sign off on a search that was utterly unprecedented since independence and which would face severe constitutional questions if the judge was not damn sure of what was being asked of him and what the FBI would do with his explicit authorization. Unless you're going to sit there and tell me that the judge had to have been some stooge beholden to the President - and hey, if he is, I'd like to know - then this is not purely an issue of what you're portraying, some politically motivated witch hunt that is under the sole effective control of the President. If you want to argue that this judge is THAT corrupt that he would go along with such a scheme, make your case.