warrants
the president can monitor communications that happen completely outside this country all he wants. no warrant necessary. we're pretty happy with that. but to wiretap a communication that happens completely within this country we really want to see a warrant. i think we'd be pretty unhappy to find out that politicians are listening to our conversations with our lawyers and doctors. that leaves communications that cross into or out of the united states. we'd like some protection for those. but not as much as for the pure domestic case. that's what fisa warrants are for. fisa is a secret court that all but rubber stamps secret warrants. at least it did until this administration. one has to wonder what communications bush wanted to monitor that fisa denied. apparently now he's monitoring them without fisa's approval. is he monitoring political enemies like nixon? if so the fucker should be incarcerated. perhaps he's just monitoring foreign nationals inside the us communicating within the us. that's okay with me. but the law needs to be updated instead of ignored.