Because some of them are criminals too and fear being stumbled over in an investigation?
Because they are on the side of the bad guys?
What’s your take?
- "Roving wiretaps have been used for decades by law enforcement in routine narcotics cases. They reportedly were used to help thwart a plot earlier this year to blow up synagogues in Riverdale, N.Y. Business records, including bank and telephone records, can provide important leads early in a national security investigation, and they have been used to obtain evidence in numerous cases.
The value of lone wolf authority is best demonstrated by its absence in the summer of 2001. That's when FBI agents might have obtained a warrant to search the computer of Zacharias Moussaoui, often referred to as the "20th hijacker," before the 9/11 attacks—although there was no proof at the time of his arrest on an immigration violation that he was acting for a terrorist organization. But a later search of his computer revealed just that.
Rather than simply renew these vital provisions, which expire at the end of this year, some congressional Democrats want to impose requirements that would diminish their effectiveness, or add burdens to existing authorizations that would retard rather than advance our ability to gather intelligence. WSJ, Michael Mukasey, Intelligence Averts Another Attack
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Murray sez:
Didn't you know that our current federal government considers political correctness more important that catching or punishing terrorist? I mean, they don't make a serious attempt to stop them from coming into this country so why would they make a serious attempt to find them afterwards? Not only that, but once they get in, we give them free medical. We have no war on terrorist. We just have another avenue to spend, spend spend!
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