Hot Pursuit

Senator Buford T. Justice speaks out on FISA.

Senator Wants Court to Oversee Spy Program

WASHINGTON -- The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, breaking ranks with the president on domestic eavesdropping, says he wants a special court to oversee the program.

But less than a day later, a top aide to Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., sought to clarify his position.

Roberts told The New York Times that he is concerned that the secret court established by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act could not issue warrants as quickly as the monitoring program requires. But he is optimistic that the problem could be worked out.

"You don't want to have a situation where you have capability that doesn't work well with the FISA court, in terms of speed and agility and hot pursuit," Roberts said Friday.

What the hell kind of special court is Roberts talking about? We already know that the "the paperwork is too hard" excuse is bullshit. Is the problem with FISA the fact that it's staffed by humans and not kangaroos?

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