illegal wiretaps and FISA

This is hilarious:

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a27337612f5.htm

"The Secret FISA Court: Rubber Stamping Our Rights"
Published: 11/27/00 Author: Philip Colangelo

"Seven judges on a secret court have authorized all but one of over
7,500 requests to spy in the name of National Security. They meet in
secret, with no published orders, opinions, or public record. Those
spied on May never know of the intrusion. Now, Clinton has expanded the
powers to include not only electronic, but physical searches."

There follow breathless warnings of OPEN-ENDED SURVEILLANCE!

THE PRICE OF SECRECY!

SEVEN MEN AND A RUBBER STAMP!

THE NOOSE TIGHTENS!

And it's all Clinton's fault!

Where did it appear? FreeRepublic.com "A Conservative News Forum"

Things have changed. Isn't one of the hallmarks of conservative ideology
supposed to be a distrust of government power? The guy who wrote that
piece may or may not be a nutcase, but he was a conservative. At least
he was a conservative in 2000. In 2006 he'd be smeared as a traitorous
left-wing liberal if he wrote something similar about Bush's far more
invasive secret domestic wiretaps, which illegally subverts even the
easy FISA standards.

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