Farker finds Freepers faint for FISA

[TalkingDog]

Some Farker on Fark.com posted this Freep story from November 2000:

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a27337612f5.htm

The real gold is the comments section, where they gnash and moan about Clinton USING FISA to put them all in deep dark holes. (if only)

snip:
The Secret FISA Court: Rubber Stamping Our Rights
By Philip Colangelo
Covert Action Quarterly
11-27-00

Seven judges on a secret court have authorized all but one of over 7,500 requests to spy in the name of National Security. They meet in secret, with no published orders, opinions, or public record. Those spied on May never know of the intrusion. Now, Clinton has expanded the powers to include not only electronic, but physical searches.

The aftershock of the Oklahoma City bombing sent Congress scurrying to trade off civil liberties for an illusion of public safety. A good ten weeks before that terrible attack, however with a barely noticed pen stroke President Bill Clinton virtually killed off the Fourth Amendment when he approved a law to expand the already extraordinary powers of the strangest creation in the history of the federal judiciary.

[Faygo Kid]

1. Freakin' far out. Friend or Foe? Foolish Freepers know.