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> We can prove that wrong in November, of course. The Democrats are no better when it comes to these issues, look at their voting record.
by AsyncAwait 8y ago
> We can prove that wrong in November, of course.
The Democrats are no better when it comes to these issues, look at their voting record.
- reaperducer 8y agoThis is true. The secret federal court that makes all of this possible was established during the Carter administration.
- dragonwriter 8y agoNo. FISA and the two federal courts (the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review) created under it in the 1970s do not make this surveillance possible, as it was possible before FISA; instead, they are part of the regime established to restrict it after a number of notorious abuses (the FISA restrictions have been weakened in the post-9/11 era, but are still more than existed prior to FISA.)