It appears that more and more Democrats in Congress was telling the NSA their wiretapping program was not legal. WASHINGTON – The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee told President Bush Wednesday that the White House broke the law by withholding information from the full congressional oversight committees about a new domestic surveillance program. […]
Turns out Alito also defended the Regan administration in warantless wiretaps. Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito defended the right of government officials to order domestic wiretaps when he worked for the Reagan Justice Department, documents released Friday show. He advocated a step by step approach to strengthening the hand of officials in a 1984 memo […]
Well it looks like the Democrats and some Republicans are not the only ones wondering about Bush’s legal authorization to order the wiretaps: The presiding judge of a secret court that oversees government surveillance in espionage and terrorism cases is arranging a classified briefing for her fellow judges to address their concerns about the legality […]
I been wondering that since Bush feels he has the power to break the law and since his current Supreme Court nominee, Sam Alito, shares the same “constitutional” values as Bush will that make him even more of a threat to the high court. Well it turns out Alito will get to answer on that: […]