SPYGATE-BUSH said he re-authorizes these wiretraps every 45 days

[FogerRox]

I have spent considerable time trying to find the source for this 45 day mandate. I have read the Carter & CLinton executive orders & the FISA law.

I cant find a reference anywhere to the need to re-authorize every 45 days.

HELP

[Vincardog]

1. He re-authorizes unconstitutional activity every 45 days?

How many High Crimes will that be? There is no mandate or authority for aWoL to break the law ever.

[raysr]

2. Every time he

has re-authorized it should be another count. X counts of illegal wiretapping--100 years in Angola!

[tulsakatz]

7. true.........

By admitting that he does it every 45 days, he's saying every 45 days, he breaks the law!!!

By his own admission he's saying he's guilty!!

[shraby]

3. Probably it's not there because he's supposed

to get a warrant EVERY time they spy like that.

[FogerRox]

4. I dont think Gonzalez pulled the 45 days out of a hat

maybe he did-- or maybe Rove did-- just to make it "SOUND" official. But its been a month, I find nothing that mentions the 45 day period.

I just cant leave that stone unturned, so after a month, I am asking for help--------

[CJCRANE]

5. Bad short term memory.

* has to be reminded what he's doing every 45 days.

[tulsakatz]

6. naturally, it wouldn't be listed under FISA

Since he obviously believes he is above the law and doesn't use the FISA court.......

The 'every 45 days' thing must be one of those things that only makes sense in Bushworld.

[FogerRox]

8. I wish to understand this part of BUSH world-- LOL

The 'every 45 days' thing must be one of those things that only makes sense in Bushworld.

[tulsakatz]

12. you're assuming it can be understood........

I mean, if you're going to break the law, why would you repeat that behavior every 45 days? Not only that but why admit that you break the law every 45 days?

I don't think I've ever heard any kind of precedent or qualification for the 45 days.......I'd like to know the answer to that one too.

[foo_bar]

9. the executive branch is making up laws (err, "procedures")

To me, absent a court challenge, it would be much more reasonable to codify the procedures that are currently in place, i.e., renewal every 45 days and appropriately monitored by the Inspector General and the Justice Department ...

http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2005/12/where_id_like_t.html

QUESTION: Madame Secretary, that's an important point because the reason the law was created, to create a court to expedite this, was to adjudicate the delicate balance between civil liberties and national security, and the President decided to circumvent that.

SECRETARY RICE: This is a program that is very thoroughly controlled and reviewed and it has been reviewed not just by the White House counsel but by the lawyers of the Justice Department and by the lawyers of the NSA, the National Security Agency, and by the Inspector General of the National Security Agency, and it has to be reauthorized every 45 days. And the Congress, congressional leaders, including --

QUESTION: But those are Administration lawyers --

SECRETARY RICE: Including of the --

QUESTION: Why not go to an objective court?

SECRETARY RICE: The Congress, including -- congressional leaders, including leaders of the relevant oversight intelligence committees, have been briefed on this.

http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2005/58233.htm

The fact that the NSA activities are reviewed and reauthorized approximately every 45 days to ensure that they continue to be necessary and appropriate further demonstrates the reasonableness of these activities.

http://cryptome.org/doj-nsa-spy.htm

The 45 day authorizing process was just internal made-up horse-shit.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/1/3/193856/8515

[FogerRox]

11. beautifull -- thanks much

The Dipshit is busted. & 45 day authorizing process was just internal made-up horse-shit.

from here-

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/1/3/193856/8515

see my post #4

[flyarm]

10. * has to visit OZ every 45 days to get that brain!!...n/t