FISA COURT DENIED "King George BusHitlerburton" MANY MANY MANY WARRANTS

UPI:

"... the 26-year-old Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court modified more wiretap requests from the Bush administration than the four previous presidential administrations combined. The 11-judge court that authorizes FISA wiretaps modified only two search warrant orders out of the 13,102 applications approved over the first 22 years of the court's operation.

But since 2001, the judges have modified 179 of the 5,645 requests for surveillance by the Bush administration, the report said. A total of 173 of those court-ordered "substantive modifications" took place in 2003 and 2004. And, the judges also rejected or deferred at least six requests for warrants during those two years -- the first outright rejection of a wiretap request in the court's history."

PRE-BUSH/FISA Court modified warrants = 1/6551 - or .0002%
BUSH/FISA Court modifications = 179/5645 - or .03%.
IOW: FISA was 100 times more likely to hamper Bush's efforts AFTER 9/11, then any other president BEFORE 9/11.

SO: I guess that whole entire meme which states that Bush could get a court order for anything (and therefore shouldn't have circumvented the FISA court for the NSA intercepts) is TOTAL BS! This PROVES that Bush - as CinC - was TOTALLY right to use his constitutional powers to order intercepts of the enemy - EVERYWHERE AND ANYWHERE. This RESPONSIBLE effort stopped MANY attacks:

According to the FBI and statistics provided by the Justice Department, there have been more than 100 instances of planned terrorist activities within the United States that have been thwarted by domestic surveillance. These include an attempt to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge, the Mall of America and the Holland Tunnel.

God Bless Bush. MORE HERE and HERE.