Judges on Surveillance Court To Be Briefed on Spy Program: "Several members of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court said in interviews that they want to know why the administration believed secretly listening in on telephone calls and reading e-mails of U.S. citizens without court authorization was legal. Some of the judges said they are particularly concerned that information gleaned from the president's eavesdropping program may have been improperly used to gain authorized wiretaps from their court."
Not only do they question the legality of Bush's program, they are suggesting that warrants actually received from the FISA court might have relied on improperly gained evidence and be the "fruit of the poisonous tree." One judge actually suggested that the secret court might just disband since the President was going around it anyway. Why pretend you have court oversight or need warrants?
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