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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (11606)	2/12/2006 1:33:01 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541141

The FISA statute is antiquated. Indeed. A product of the Church era. The phone call and electronic patterns are evanescent but the time required, weeks, to get a court order is simply too long to allow effective work to be done. On the other hand, there is a procedure under the statute for warrantless monitoring should data mining lead to something interesting. IMO, the Administration is going all wrong about this. It should apologize, identify and privately notify any persons who were wrongly monitored, then ask for Congress to pass a more effective law. The public loves apologies, even insincere Clinton-style ones.