Saturday, September 8, 2007

The Terrorist Bill of Rights by Jed Babbin

The Democrats’ national security agenda seems designed, point by point, to destroy the means by which we have been protected since 9-11.

First, they want to revise the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to impose the severest -- and almost certainly unconstitutional -- restrictions on the gathering of intelligence data by intercepting telephone calls and e-mails. If the Dems have their way, not only will the NSA and CIA have to get FISA warrants to intercept communications between terrorists abroad and people in the US, but also for everything except conversations between two foreign citizens overseas. If it is amended to broaden its coverage so greatly, the FISA court will be too swamped with applications to deal with warrants or anything else, and counter-terrorist intelligence gathering will essentially stop.

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