Why Do We Need Warrantless Wiretapping If Not A Single Wiretap Warrant Request Gets Rejected?
While the government continues to defend its warrantless wiretapping program — despite it being found illegal and prone to serious privacy violations — the latest report on official wiretaps that did receive a warrant shows not only that they were way up in 2009, but that not a single request for a warrant to wiretap was turned down. Not a single one. Now, admittedly, these are different types of wiretaps: by the police, mostly for drug cases, rather than the feds for terrorism cases. But it does suggest that the judicial system is pretty open to approving wiretap requests, and still makes us wonder why the government keeps insisting that actually getting a warrant — as is required by the law — is too much to ask in many cases. 38 Comments | Leave a Comment..
