[Kulturkampf]

the reason to go around the FISA court is:

(1) Courts take time; if a phone call is being placed from a telephone number reputed to be of a terrorist to a US person, we need quick action to monitor the call; or if a call is originating from a satellite phone in a region known to be plotting terrorist acts towards an American place wich could act as a signal...

Immediate action is needed to monitor the call. The call cannot be delayed, and it cannot be recorded unless there is a warrant to listen to it.

Do we have enough time to appear before a judge and get a warrant signed in the time that the phone rings before it is picked up?

(2) the amount of warrants that would be issued would become ridiculous, and

(3) It is not unconstitutional being that it does not involve the monitoring of private calls of US citizens, and if it does involve a US citizen, the US citizen is likely committing an act of treason, and furthermore, it

(4) doesn't violate privacy in the sense that nothing about a person's private life will be used in persecution of that person because under this warrant only evidence gathered pertinent to FIS sources and terrorst plots would be considered valid.