Debate Warranted Over Warrantless Wiretapping

In the New York Times today Phillip Bobbit wrote an opinion piece about the new warrantless wiretap law.   Excepted from: The Warrantless Debate Over Wiretapping By PHILIP BOBBITT New York Times August 22, 2007 http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/22/opinion/22bobbitt.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1 “Furthermore, there is an unstated assumption that warrantless surveillance is lawless surveillance. There is, however, judicial precedent for warrantless searches, even if you can’t tell... read more

http://www.washingtonspectator.com/arti cles/20070315surveillance_1.cfm UNDER SURVEILLANCE - The End of Illegal Domestic Spying? Don't Count on It By Joe W. Pitts | 03/15/2007 Americans of all persuasions were shocked by the revelations, first reported in the New York Times in December of 2005, that President Bush had authorized the National Security Agency (NSA) to eavesdrop secretly for years on the calls and e-mails of American citizens, bypassing the warrants required by the Foreign...