*FISA Spy Court Judge Quits In Protest *- WaPo

[rndmprsn]

ok people this shit is out of hand...secret spy judges quitting in protest?!

jesus H christ!

RNDM

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/20/AR2005122000685.html

A federal judge has resigned from the court that oversees government surveillance in intelligence cases in protest of President Bush's secret authorization of a domestic spying program, according to two sources.

U.S. District Judge James Robertson, one of 11 members of the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, sent a letter to Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. late Monday notifying him of his resignation without providing an explanation.



Two associates familiar with his decision said yesterday that Robertson privately expressed deep concern that the warrantless surveillance program authorized by the president in 2001 was legally questionable and may have tainted the FISA court's work.

Robertson, who was appointed to the federal bench in Washington by President Bill Clinton in 1994 and was later selected by then-Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist to serve on the FISA court, declined to comment when reached at his office late yesterday.

Word of Robertson's resignation came as two Senate Republicans joined the call for congressional investigations into the National Security Agency's warrantless interception of telephone calls and e-mails to overseas locations by U.S. citizens suspected of links to terrorist groups. They questioned the legality of the operation and the extent to which the White House kept Congress informed.

[rndmprsn]

1. kick!

[stop the bleeding]

2. so what happens from here - see link

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5657204

[Corgigal]

3. An ethical man

Nice to see they exist in America from time to time.