Thread: Bush was denied wiretaps, bypassed them

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?S ... 2526-7310r

WASHINGTON, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- U.S. President George Bush decided to skip seeking warrants for international wiretaps because the court was challenging him at an unprecedented rate.

A review of Justice Department reports to Congress by Hearst newspapers shows the 26-year-old Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court modified more wiretap requests from the Bush administration than the four previous presidential administrations combined.

The 11-judge court that authorizes FISA wiretaps modified only two search warrant orders out of the 13,102 applications approved over the first 22 years of the court's operation.

But since 2001, the judges have modified 179 of the 5,645 requests for surveillance by the Bush administration, the report said. A total of 173 of those court-ordered "substantive modifications" took place in 2003 and 2004. And, the judges also rejected or deferred at least six requests for warrants during those two years -- the first outright rejection of a wiretap request in the court's history.

Well, I look at it this way. If they only denied SIX of his, then the problem is with BUSH'S requests--NOT with the FISA COURT. They have basically approved NINETEEN THOUSAND requests so there must have been VERY GOOD REASON FOR MODIFICATION OR DENYING THE REQUEST. VERY SIMPLY, Bush is spying on INNOCENT AMERICANS and the Court just ain't gonna let him! And, now the number that he has done BYPASSING the court is growing. So, he is bypassing the Court for one reason--he KNOWS he doesn't have probably cause. HE IS SPYING on the OPPOSITION.