12-19-2005, 12:51 PM
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Rail Baron
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Originally Posted by pan6467
So NOT one of the people tapped were American citizens, or legal alien? These taps were all done on foreign owned property? All these people, who were not US Citizens (or legal aliens), all lived in housing owned by Al Quida?
The law is wishy-washy, granted, but it makes clear that this provision for non warrant surveillence only applies to non-US "persons" (not just citizens). Therefore, even if 1 just 1 US citizen (or legal alien) was tapped, it is illegal.
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But thats not the whole thing...what's this mean to you, maybe we're both interpreting it differently...
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(b) Applications for a court order under this subchapter are authorized if the President has, by written authorization, empowered the Attorney General to approve applications to the court having jurisdiction under section 1803 of this title, and a judge to whom an application is made may, notwithstanding any other law, grant an order, in conformity with section 1805 of this title, approving electronic surveillance of a foreign power or an agent of a foreign power for the purpose of obtaining foreign intelligence information, except that the court shall not have jurisdiction to grant any order approving electronic surveillance directed solely as described in paragraph (1)(A) of subsection (a) of this section unless such surveillance may involve the acquisition of communications of any United States person.
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