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Exclusivity

You have repeatedly said that the most important aspect of the update to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act was to affirm FISA as the exclusive means for electronic surveillance. On July 2, 2008, in a federal court in your home state of California, Judge Vaughn Walker ruled that the 1978 FISA law already was the exclusive means for electronic surveillance, and that Administration claims of inherent Article II authority were not germane. If exclusivity was redundant in this case, does this mean you will be busily reaffirming the primacy of every law in the United States Code for the rest of the Congressional session, and if so, could you please start with the Bill of Rights?

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Submitted by d_dayen 2 years ago

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  1. bccpcole said:

    Actually, she needs to start with Articles I, II and III of the Constitution itself, which delineate the separation of powers, then she could go on to the Bill of Rights. After that, the Geneva Conventions would be nice. Then she could peck away at the remaining hundred or so that the Bush administration has made defunct.

    2 years ago