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: Adapted from the book "Main Justice", 1996, ISBN 0-684-81135-9.
: * Last year, a secret court in the Justice Department authorized a record * 697 'national security' wiretaps on American soil, outside normal * constitutional procedures. * * The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, is a 1978 law that permits * secret buggings and wiretaps of individuals suspected of being agents * of a hostile foreign government or international terrorist organization * EVEN WHEN THE TARGET IS NOT SUSPECTED OF COMMITTING ANY CRIME. * * The FISA court operates outside the normal constitutional standards for * searches and seizures. Non-government personnel are not allowed. * The courts files cannot be publicly reviewed. * * The average U.S. citizen might reasonably assume use of this court * is at the least: unusual. * * It is not. In fact, in the United States today it is increasingly * common. In 1994, federal courts authorized more wiretaps for * intelligence-gathering and national security purposes than they * did to investigate ordinary federal crimes. * * The review process to prevent legal and factual errors is virtually * non-existent. * * And the FISA system's courtroom advocacy is monumentally one-sided. * * The court has never formally rejected an application. Not once. * * For the first time in modern U.S. history, the Congress had * institutionalized a process for physical searches outside of * Fourth Amendment standards. * * Not even Congress' intelligenc |
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