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 ...more »
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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