I can see acting "patriotically and in good faith" when it's a hot pursuit situation, when nobody has time to wake up the corporate counsel or a FISA judge before tapping communications related to a terrorist attack in progress.
But that doesn't justify a program much longer than the time scale required to get a warrant. Any sensible corporate counsel would say, look, give us a warrant here or we're going to have to stop taking this legal risk with our shareholders' money.
eee_eff
· 1 year ago
Tim, the question of legality is so quaint. If it wasn't legal, they will make it so.
The only law that GWB and his cronies acknowledge is the spoken word of the Executive Branch, which is pretty frightening considering how articulate they are. So the real question is: Do they have the power they think they do?
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But that doesn't justify a program much longer than the time scale required to get a warrant. Any sensible corporate counsel would say, look, give us a warrant here or we're going to have to stop taking this legal risk with our shareholders' money.
The only law that GWB and his cronies acknowledge is the spoken word of the Executive Branch, which is pretty frightening considering how articulate they are. So the real question is: Do they have the power they think they do?