Warrantless Wiretapping Revisited, Why the FISA Court is Irrelevant

 Democrats have been relentless in their attacks on the president’s so-called “domestic spying program”, this is the program that spies on calls in the United States that originate from foreign, non friendly countries. Somehow this foreign surveillance program has been dubbed as domestic spying, I don’t know how, other than the fact that it has been drummed into American’s heads for so long that the people who really don’t pay attention or even bother to do research on the program just believe what the liberals tell them.

 Democrats keep telling the American people that the president should go through the FISA court before the government wiretaps a potential terrorist conversation. But that isn’t the case.

When the U.S. Supreme Court said in 1967 that the 4th Amendment protects telephone conversations in a phone booth from surveillance without a warrant, Justice Potter Stewart said in the majority opinion that the ruling did not address “a situation involving national security.”

 That was the judge in the MAJORITY, the majority said that said that the government can’t listen in on a conversation without a warrant, yet the majority believed this did not include national security.

The following year, when Congress crafted a bill to comply with the court ruling on surveillance, the language said nothing in the new rules “shall limit the constitutional power of the president to take such measures as he deems necessary to protect the nation against actual or potential attack or other hostile acts of a foreign power, to obtain foreign intelligence information deemed essential to the security of the United States or to protect national security information.”

 The Democrats are either lying their asses off, or are ignorant of the law. I believe they are lying their asses off because according to this article both President Carter and President Clinton used warrantless wiretapping for national security issues and nothing was ever said. But now with an evil Republican doing it, it has to be illegal. The constitution must be being trampled. This is all such demagoguery. People hear the president is spying on them and they get emotional without being rational. 

 The Democrats know that they are lying to the American people, they are trying to play of their emotions and they have have succeeded to an extent as president Bush has agreed to follow FISA law. He has turned America’s national security over to a court that many believe is unconstitutional because of the rhetoric and lies coming from the left.

 I hope they are happy.