So, it's okay if Obama spies on the American people

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87. And appointments to FISA court (Kollar-Kotelly) have been very political too...

This woman after having already been nominated for the FISA court by Bush right before the 2002 midterm elections on the weekend before these elections in the final court resolution on the Microsoft case overturned the ONLY court decision since the AT&T breakup of trying to use the Sherman anti-trust act to break up any kind of monopolistic company.

http://www.zdnet.com/news/ms-doj-states-file-antitrust-settlement/126210

Ashcroft and company when they took over defending the appeal of the earlier decision made from the Clinton era prosecutions, etc. did nothing to defend the government's case against Microsoft.

Kollar-Kotelly, seemed to already have money in the bags for her compliance in this decision from the PTB with the FISA court appointment which she subsequently became the head of. And she made this decision the weekend before the midterm elections. Just in time for Republicans to be able to go around the stump saying how the Bush administration has helped American business "stay solid", etc. with the Kollar-Kotelly decision fresh out in the news, but not long enough for those who opposed this decision to prepare and get printed out any sort of reasonable response in the press to help Democrats respond to such claims in a constructive way then. The whole decision and timing of it stank heavily. And that she was appointed to the FISA court smelled as well about how things would be done on the FISA court subsequently (or not done!)...

However, she's one of the few justices on the FISA court that the right wing goes after for questioning the earlier NSA warrants that went through the court. Given her earlier history, it makes you wonder what the other justices did to get on this court and how "compliant" they are to what the PTB want...

http://macsmind.com/wordpress/2007/08/president-kollar-kotelly-alias-activist-fisa-judge-at-it-again/

So even though the FISA court was manipulated as hell to help our "security state" gain more power, even that body was a barrier that had to be removed or disempowered. We do have a very large boiling pot of water that we all as frogs are very slowly being cooked in! We're almost "done" unless we get more whistleblowers, etc. that try to tip it over...