Spy court judge quits in protest

CNN.com writes:

A federal judge has resigned from a special court set up to oversee government surveillance to protest President Bush's secret authorization of a domestic spying program on people with suspected terrorist ties, The Washington Post reported.

Alright, here's the gist of the story. U.S. District Judge James Robertson resigned in protest of the warrant-free-wiretaps. He believes that evidence gathered illegally from those wiretaps is being used to get warrants for other wiretaps.

The action by U.S. District Judge James Robertson stemmed from deep concern that the surveillance program that Bush authorized was legally questionable and may have tainted the work of the court that Robertson resigned from, the newspaper said in Wednesday's editions.

The Post quoted two associates of the judge.

Robertson was one of 11 members of the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which oversees government applications for secret surveillance or searches of foreigners and U.S. citizens suspected of terrorism or espionage.

Quoting colleagues of Robertson, the Post said the judge had indicated he was concerned that information gained from the warrantless surveillance under Bush's program subsequently could have been used to obtain warrants under the FISA program.

This really infuriates me. Emperor Bush will prolly get off without any problems because of the republican majority in Congress and one of his cronies is the Attorney General. There has to be something we can do about this.

Any ideas?

CNN.com - Report: Spy court judge quits in protest - Dec 21, 2005