Why is circumventing FISA and nixing oversight so damn important to these people?

why is it so goddam important to be able to spy without going through the fisa process, which has been put in place precisely to allow expediency in urgent cases...? why are they so goddam intent on removing any vestige of oversight...? why...?

The Justice Department asked U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor to put her ruling on hold while the government appeals it. The judge on Aug. 17 barred government surveillance of suspected al-Qaeda operatives' telephone calls to and from the United States without court warrants.

The decision "threatens the gravest of harms to the government and to the American public," leaving the nation "more vulnerable to terrorist attack," the Justice Department said in papers filed in federal court in Detroit.

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The government said it is entitled to a suspension of Taylor's order because "there is a substantial likelihood of prevailing on a number of issues" when the case is appealed.

if you're so damn sure spying will be upheld on appeal, why weren't you able to make the case for that in the first damn place...?

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