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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
then there must be no reason at all to renew the patriot act, since bush and the AG are going to ignore the 'ex parte' clause of it anyway.
Bush knows he broke the law. The PATRIOT ACT gave him the authority he needed to do these wiretaps and get the warrant after the fact, he just chose not to and therein lies the broken law.
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The Bush administration had briefed congressional leaders about the program and notified the judge in charge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, the secret Washington court that handles national security issues.
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So with the knowledge the legislative and judicial branches of government the president conducted an act deemed vital to national security. The lefts response to this would be farcical if I didn't know it was the usual 'lets try to get Bush from this angle' type of thing.
I would say it was madness if I didn't know so many put their ideology as a priority to the nation as a whole.