CNN > Ensor: "...expect the FISA law to be amended..when all the smoke..."

[sabra]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/01/24/otsc.toobin.ensor/

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ENSOR: You know, on balance, they're good people. I've met a lot of the people who work at the NSA and who do this kind of work, and they're admirable Americans.

The problem is though our system of government says that there are supposed to be checks and balances. And the question will be whether or not a judge or a court shouldn't at least have some kind of oversight of this program.

Even those, the lawyers that I've talked to privately in the government who worked on the government's arguments for this will privately tell you they expect the FISA law to be amended, and they expect this kind of surveillance to probably be brought under it when all the smoke and fire dies down.

[AX10]

1. Ensor must be a rw hack.

[Brotherjohn]

2. It still wouldn't change the FACT that they've BROKEN THE LAW. (nt)

[Uncle Joe]

3. I have no doubt, If Bush were to run

naked as a Jaybird down Broad St. screaming his bloody head off that the Martians were coming to get him. The neocons and their corpwhorate owned MSM puppets would say the law needs to be changed making it legal.

[NorCalDem]

4. Yes, if they were spying domestically on those with

terrorist ties that can be proven in a court of law, then of course the law should be amended to include that kind of surveillance. But as others so eloquently stated on DU earlier, there is no way to prove ties between Al-Qaeda and Democratic Campaign headquarters, that's why they had to circumvent the law.

[Sperk]

5. So they'll just write an unconstitutional law? don't we have to amend

the constitution first? WTF?

[stopbush]

6. Uh, "this kind of surveillance" is ALREADY "under it (FISA)"

What an idiot.