IF: FISA Needs to be Amended - THEN: Bush Committed Crimes

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Judge Posner: FISA Needs To Be Amended; Unsaid: Bush Committed Crimes

Judge Posner has an Op-Ed in the Washington Post this morning that is understandably receiving a lot of attention.


What's remarkable about Posner's Op-Ed is that his whole point is that the FISA law on this presently is (in his view) woefully inadequate to the task. He never even mentions the serious implication of this point, namely, that if he is right that FISA currently prohibits this -- and he is right -- then the Administration's data mining for the past four years has been a violation of criminal law.


. . . Posner may be right that current law is too restrictive. Congress should have that debate. But isn't it troubling that an esteemed federal judge seems so indifferent to the fact that, in the meantime -- before the Nation and the Congress have had the opportunity to debate Posner's proposal -- the Nation's Chief Executive is systematically authorizing criminal felonies?


http://www.dailykos.com/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/20/AR2005122001053.html