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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Orcastraiter who wrote (719122)12/20/2005 7:12:55 PM
From: pompsander  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
"By the way, the law allows for a 72 hour lag between beginning the surveillance and obtaining the warrant. That means that security will never be compromised by delays.

But since Bush has decided to keep this operation of spying on American Citizens a secret...folks want to know what Americans he was spying on. I'd like to see the list myself. At the very least let a panel of judges review the list of people spied on, and a bipartisan group of congress too."

You hit the nail on the head. No one opposes chasing down terrorists or terrorist collaborators, but the 72 hour retro window is such an easy process to follow, virtually never denied (and certainly not if a shread of relevance had been shown in the intercept), why not just follow it? Why raise even the hint of suspicion that the intercept MIGHT have been used for a purpose other than the broadly existing purposes?

Why create the question if not necessary to do so?
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