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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
It's not clear to me how this gets in front of a court. I think it ends up as a political question. Or does Congress stop appropriating money for the program?
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Congress holds hearings and amends the statute.
What Bush has yet satisfactorily to explain is why the statute was insufficient--the application is ex parte, and they can do it retroactively. Basically what he's saying is that rather than amend the statute to make it useful in the circumstances it was better to ignore it and use his constitutional authority (which he presumes overrides the statute) to seek these taps.
And he wonders why the Patriot act wasn't reauthorized. (which, by the way, is another story--why did hte times sit on this story for a year, publishing it on teh day the patriot act was up for a vote?)
