Diane Feinstein and some liberals have suggested that, if the president’s targeted killing policy is too unilateral, the remedy might be found in something modeled after the FISA court.
Make no mistake: Such a court would be nothing more than a rubber-stamp. At best.
In 1978, after Church Committee hearings exposed massive abuse of FBI search procedures to spy on and harass Americans in the United States, many of them totally peaceful, Congress instituted a number of reforms to rein in these abuses. The most well known was probably the Foreign Intelligence and Surveillance Act. It created a FISA court to issue special warrants for spying on international communications with a suspected foreign enemy.
The law did not create a real court in the judicial branch, but rather an executive branch panel with secret proceedings housed right in the Justice Department.
Between 1978 and September 11, 2001, there were about 13,000 FISA applications. Guess how many were rejected? Zero. That’s right, zero. This included a warrant issued to spy on a man in Phoenix accused of organizing a crime ring to steal and sell baby food.
After 9/11, FISA was apparently too strict for the Bush administration, so it asked for looser standards under the USA PATRIOT Act. The Justice Department then loosened the restrictions even further. Then, in December 2005, the public learned that Bush had circumvented even this pitiful process altogether and had ordered the NSA, a military agency, to spy on Americans without any warrants whatsoever. In 2007 and 2008, Congress voted to legalize Bush’s illegal behavior and immunize anyone who was complicit from prosecution, and to create even looser standards for the executive branch to spy on Americans without warrants. Obama has vastly expanded warrantless electronic surveillance.
Read More at informationliberation.com . By Anthony Gregory.
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With apologies to Forest Gump … “Tyrants are as tyrants do.”
Feinstein and the other tyrants on Congress don’t give a rat’s a$$ about our rights and freedoms. They just want a piece of the action so they can get their political enemies on the hit list, too.
Comrade Feinstein appears increasingly to be much more than a puppet of the alias, “B.H.Obama”. Her aggressively destructive stance qualifies her as a member of the international group of NWO sociopaths who pull the strings of their atheist, psychopath appointee in the POTUS slot.
The folk of California continue to re-elect the psychopath, Feinstein ? Little wonder that the WWI NAZI-family-background Austrian, Arnold Schwarzenegger, was able to plunder CALIF so thoroughly. Too many Californians CONTINUE to fail to perceive what he did to the state. And the lovely Maria ? All pre-arranged by the NWO illumina/NAZI entourage. Too many females are locked in pubescent development, in which they see only the staged, foto images of “Arnie´s” masculine body. They fail to perceive his California-USA-destructive behavior, which perceptual failure is of course what the NWO atheist-types wish to obtain.