Can anyone please give me some information about the wiretap issue
2006-09-17 14:41:36 · 8 answers · asked by suetz_angel 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Bush did not start the wiretap. Clinton started it with projects Echelon and Carnivore, two programs that monitored the electronic communications of millions of Americans during his administration without authorization from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
2006-09-17 14:49:08 · answer #1 · answered by Boredstiff 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Come on, no rational party supports that. They can get a FISA warrant up to a couple of weeks AFTER you start the wiretap, anyone who would support bypassing the legal method just doesn't get it that we have something called the rule of law here.
2006-09-17 22:10:01 · answer #2 · answered by ash 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You want to politicize this issue. It is not a matter of politics or of wiretapping. It is not an internal US issue. It is a matter of monitoring the international calls in and out of the US when Al-Qaeda are involved to protect us from future terrorist activities.
2006-09-17 21:55:50 · answer #3 · answered by DrB 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well wiretap laws go all the way back to 1934. two were passed during President Clintons term in 1994 and 2000. the first link is to an article about a court upholding them.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/10/technology/10wiretap.html?ei=5089&en=f5adc6abfd621349&ex=1307592000&adxnnl=1&partner=rssyahoo&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1151722071-+EjSnBBi+BwXWmcDHPVzgg
http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Surveillance/200001_us_fed_wiretap_laws.html
2006-09-17 22:31:01 · answer #4 · answered by rap1361 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
people who have been suspected of ties to terrorist, who are recieving over seas phone calls have been wire taped.
The phones change often, many times the US phones can be disposable ones with no identified owner , but the other oversea caller is a suspect.
This is one example
Normally they do get a secret federal warrant but at times they have to move quickly and listen before the warrant is gotten.
And from what I have seen no one has had any rights violated from the program, so I don't see what the probelm is
2006-09-17 21:47:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The wiretap is for the purpose of seeking victims for what is to come!...
http://www.global-conspiracies.com/fema_concentration_camps.htm
2006-09-18 00:34:56 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is starting to look like the republicans are not going to back the bushwacker's latest illegal scheme. So now maybe the Congress will show some backbone and reign in the out of control idiot. And of course the dems are not going to agree to it either.
2006-09-17 21:49:57 · answer #7 · answered by industrialconfusion 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Oh please...move fast one it??? with evidence it takes an HOUR to get a damn warrant....you know like the law says that you have to?
This program is a clear and blatent violation of the 4th amendment and the president should be impeached for it.
2006-09-17 21:58:32 · answer #8 · answered by Franklin 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋