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Congress created the NSA. Congress can eliminate the NSA.

• mapt 13y ago
  With the degree of power that the national security apparatus has acquired, Congress might not have that capability forever.
• 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
  Congress created this FISA court. Created by Congress in 1978 as a check against wiretapping abuses by the government, the court meets in a secure, nondescript room in the federal courthouse in Washington. All of the current 11 judges, who serve seven-year terms, were appointed to the special court by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., and 10 of them were nominated to the bench by Republican presidents. Why can't they change it to be effective? This seems to be the key point: Geoffrey R. Stone, a professor of constitutional law at the University of Chicago, said he was troubled by the idea that the court is creating a significant body of law without hearing from anyone outside the government, forgoing the adversarial system that is a staple of the American justice system. “That whole notion is missing in this process,” he said.