Bush Wiretaps

[theweatherman]

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Serious question. Why was it nessecary to skip the court order for wire taps, which are aquireable and legal? Is it unreasonable?

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Only international calls are involved, and a federal judge oversees the process. As usual, the whole story is manipulated to sound unreasonable.

Do a Google News search on wiretaps and you can read a bunch of articles about how easy it is to avoid a wiretap. I guess its better to let the terrorists slip by, and then we can send them to prison for 500 concurrent life terms when they kill 500 people.

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The question stands, why was it necessary to change the system if it is still so easy to "avoid" and is still so "controlled" ? If personal rights are still being as respected as they were (a qustionable statement at best) why was there any need for change at all? Unless of course the government was being hemmed in by ridiculou sprivacy rights?