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From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 8:41 AM
Subject: Court Affirms Wiretapping Without Warrants
To: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor:
From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 8:41 AM
Subject: Court Affirms Wiretapping Without Warrants
To: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor:
It is unremarkable that the FISA court has affirmed its obedience to the latest statute from Congress. We look forward to seeing that statute revoked soon. What this ruling neither says nor implies is that warrantless wiretaps were legal in 2001, when the outgoing administration began putting them in place on American citizens. This is the question that awaits our new Attorney General. To demur to prosecute would establish as precedent that our Executive can violate the established law (and our constitutional guarantees) with impunity.
Barry Levine
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