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Remember when people were pissed that the Bush Administration had been listening to phone conversations without a warrant? President Bush said it was due to FISA taking their sweet-ass time to approve warrants. Let's also not forget the assurance that it was only to international calls to suspected terrorist.
After looking at the stats about how many warrants FISA was denying during the Bush Administration compared to previous administrations, I fully backed this decision.
But now there has been a compromise.
Gonzales wrote a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee saying "The president is committed to using all lawful tools to protect our nation from the terrorist threat, including making maximum use of the authorities provided by FISA and taking full advantage of developments in the law."
I've got two theories on this.
The first theory is that President Bush has caved. Just like firing Rumsfeld, he has continued with the feeling that he needs to give the Democrats more of what they're demanding since they finally won an election.
The second theory is that Bush has come up with some of surveillance tool/program that is much more effective than listening to phone calls. I've got nothing to back this up and is thus purely a theory. Or perhaps just a wishful hope.
Either way, what the hell?
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