Posted by
Defend America on Friday, June 20, 2008 11:54:55 AM
The FISA bill probably will pass, which is great, but it still is not enough to protect us from those who want to do us harm. This bill limits the amount of searching for terrorist communicating because of probable cause, but as Andrew McCarthy of National Review states is the problem with having probable cause trying to apprehend terrorists is that:
The standard has no place in national-security surveillance against foreign threats. If you have probable cause, you already have strong indications that someone is a threat. That’s too late.
He is no doubt right. Until the Federal Government can be able to search and try to find these terrorists without any need of probable cause or the need to ask federal district courts whether or not this person's phone could be wiretapped, terrorists will continue to plan attacks and probably in the not so distant future successfully attack the United States again. But, this FISA Bill is probably the best we would get because of the Democratic Congress in bed with the ACLU. Of course we do not want the federal government to just tap any person's phone, but to meet the standards of probable cause in this day and age with terrorists trying to kill us, everything and anything needs to be done to protect us.