Mr. Kelly's letter exposed a "lack of urgency and excessive time lags" in processing FISA applications; as well as a bureaucracy that insists on "frequently long and unjustifiable delay," even "weeks of delay." This is disturbing enough given fast-moving terror plots.DOES ANYONE REALLY THINK THAT IF IT SUCKS NOW, THAT IT WILL GET BETTER UNDER OBAMA AND HOLDER WHO ARE OPENLY HOSTILE TO AGGRESSIVE INTEL GATHERING!?!
But Mr. Kelly's main criticism -- "an unnecessarily protracted, risk-averse process that is dominated by lawyers, not investigators and intelligence collectors" -- is far more troubling. He believes that Justice is applying "inappropriately high standards of probable cause" that stop "close cases," which "involve considerable uncertainty," from ever going before a FISA judge.
Justice, in other words, is not erring on the side of averting catastrophe but on the side of political self-protection from judicial second-guessing. "The real question," Mr. Kelly writes, "is how many applications did DOJ not submit to the Court . . . In a proactive, intelligence-driven domestic counterterrorism enterprise, such omissions should be unacceptable." He concludes that "the federal government is doing less than it is lawfully entitled to do to protect New York City, and the City is less safe as a result."
BOTTOM-LINE: IF OBAMA DELIVERS ON HIS PROMISES, THE NYC IS GOING TO BE A HELLUVA LOT LESS SAFE.
- AND THAT MEANS THE ENEMY WILL BE SUCCESSFUL AND KILL THOUSANDS AND ALL THE BLOOD WILL BE ON OBAMA'S HANDS.
- I PRAY OBAMA THROWS HIS AVERSION TO AGGRESSIVE INTEL GATHERING UNDER THE BUS.
- CAN HE DO IT?
- YES, HE CAN.
- WILL HE?
- MAYBE. I HOPE BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE...
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For the NYC Police Commissioner I say -- Fortunately I don't live in a city that is a terror target. So I guess you have to live with what your dummies created. While you are at it, check with India on how gun control worked for their citizens during the Mumbai terror attacks.
GOOD POINT ABOUT GUN CONTROL.
I LIVE IN NYC.
AND HAVE MANY LEFY LOON FRIENDS.
THEY ALL THINK THAT FISA WORKS JUST FINE AND THAT BUSH WAS WAY TO AGGRESSIVE WITH IT AND THERE'S NO REASON TO BE, YOUY ALWAYS HAVE TIOME TO GET A JUDGE TO GIVE A TEMPORARY PORDER.
THEY ARE WRONG.
IT'S SLOW NOW.
AND IT WILL LIKELY GET WORSE.
NYC MIGHT BE SMASHED AS A RESULT.
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