It's actually HARDER than it used to be .... do you know your recent history?.... do you know of a person named Hoover? What about Nixon....?
The FISA court was created in response to Nixon's abuse of executive power. It is supposed to be a judical supervision, implemented by congress, to check excutive power. Nixon used the excuse of 'National Security' to spy on political opponents.... This is fundmently wrong and pervasive to a democracy, so after Nixon the FISA court was created. This keeps the excutive branch from useing wiretaps for such political ends. The FISA court, in nearly 30 years of service has only ruled aginst 4 wire-tap requests...... But the point is ... with FISA in place the unfounded wire-taps won't be approved(hopefully). It keeps them honest, it keeps them from spying on political opposition like Nixon did.
The claim that FISA slows down wiretapping is absurd. They have THREE DAYS too supply the court with an affidavit, AFTER a wiretap has been put in place. The court will then decide if wiretap warrent is judicaly logical, Not the executive branch......
It's all about checks and balances...
Speaking on Google & Yahoo .... that is not a law or bill or anything.... It was simply a request from the govement that Yahoo complied with, while Google did not. Take that up with the corperation, not the goverment. Just like Verizon wouldn't release customer data to the RIAA.
I fail to see how it's paraniod to worry about the goverment following the law. You really should stop makeing such ill-informed personal attacks. You make a huge assumption thinking I don't know people that used to work at the WTC......We thought one family freind was dead for like a week, turned out he was on an unplaned vacation that he won/earned from a company bonus or something.
To me what Bush is doing seems like a systematic attack on the judical systems power and independance. The excutive branch DOES NOT interpret the law.
Here's another intresting read on the path of our judical system.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0125-04.htmWhen they went after the muslims, I didn't speak up because I wasn't a muslim?