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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Srexley who wrote (720968)	1/8/2006 5:02:26 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Re: FISA and Coulter First off, Coulter got her "selected data" from the Seattle paper which got it from a book by James Bamford, a former NSA expert and who is concerned about the abuse of the FISA law.... Almost no other reputable news source picked up the story as he wrote it. To elucidate you, a "modification" of a warrant is not a denial. It is just what it says, a modification. " 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. upi.com Coulter published her column in the Seattle Post Intelligencer from which she got the info the paper published that was taken from the book of James Bamford. I think the data clearly show that Bush et al were abusing the law. In fact, one of the judges quit in protest. I'd like you also to comment on Coulter's comment below: "Perhaps they can call Democratic senators as expert witnesses to testify that it was illegal for the Bush administration to eavesdrop on their completely private calls to al-Zarqawi." Why don't you see if you can get her to publish her evidence for that?