All 2002 FISA Court requests for wire taps were approved

[DeBunk]

FISA court approved all 2002 wire tap requests. So why did they need to act outside the law?

There is a secret FISA court. Here is a document from the Attorney Generals office. Read it and you will be more puzzled then before:

Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court

Mr. L. Ralph Mecham
Director, Administrative Office
of the United States Courts
Washington, D.C. 20544

Dear Mr. Mecham:

This report is submitted pursuant to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, Title 50, United States Code, Section 1807, as amended.

During calendar year 2002, 1228 applications were made to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court for electronic surveillance and physical search. The Court initially approved 1226 applications in 2002. Two applications were "approved as modified," and the United States appealed these applications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review, as applications having been denied in part. On November 18, 2002, the Court of Review issued a judgment that "ordered and adjudged that the motions for review be granted, the challenged portions of the orders on review be reversed, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court's Rule 11 be vacated, and the cases be remanded with instructions to grant the United States' applications as submitted..." Accordingly, all 1228 applications presented to the Foreign Intelligene Surveillance Court in 2002 were approved.

Sincerely,

John Ashcroft

[texpatriot2004]

1. WHAT ARE THEY HIDING? NM

[ClintonTyree]

2. Apparently.........

there's nothing that these guys think is out of bounds. Everything goes. I guess they just got tired of filing applications, why not just give the NSA carte blanch to spy on anyone they want and anyone the PRESIDENT wants? :shrug: They're lazy, I think that's it.

[samdogmom]

3. Nope. I think if the "list" of those spied upon ever gets released

we're going to find out it was critics of the current administration. I'm betting Joe Wilson was one of the names on the list.

[doublethink]

5. Bingo .....

Anybody heard of Nixon's 'Enemy's List' ? ....... why re-invent the wheel.

[Ian David]

4. Here are my guesses what he's hiding

1) Corporate espionage on behalf of Halliburton and other corporate allies.

2) Covering-up conspiracies to fix pre-war intelligence.

3) He doesn't want national security investigations to interfere with the interests of his corporate patrons-- for example, Halliburton. That way, he can burry evidence that might implicate the Saudi Royal Family, for example.

4) Opposition Research


Pentagon Caught Spying on U.S. Anti-War and Anti-Nuclear Activists
by Democracy Now (reposted) Thursday, Dec. 15, 2005 at 9:38 AM

Newly leaked Pentagon documents have confirmed the military has been monitoring and collecting intelligence on anti-war groups across the country. Peace protests are being described as threats and the military is collecting data on who is attending demonstrations. We speak with William Arkin, the former Army intelligence officer, who obtained the secret Pentagon documents.

Earlier this week NBC News exposed the existence of a secret Pentagon database to track intelligence gathered inside the United States. The database including information on dozens of anti-war protests and rallies particularly actions targeting military recruiting.

The list included: counter-military recruiting meetings held at a Quaker Meeting House in Lake Forth, Florida. Anti-nuclear protests staged in Nebraska on the 50th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki. An anti-war protest organized by military families outside Fort Bragg in North Carolina. And a rally in San Diego to support war resister Pablo Parades. The Pentagon database described all of these events as threats.

The documents obtained by NBC also indicate the Pentagon is now conducting surveillance at protests and possibly monitoring Internet traffic. One Pentagon briefing document stamped "secret" concluded: "e have noted increased communication and encouragement between protest groups using the nternet." The same document indicated the military is tracking who is attending protests in part by keeping records on cars seen at protests.

More:
http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/12/1790594.php



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