Word: warrantable
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...then, the President is merely linguistically shrouding what it really is--a new budget cut to help bail the Administration out of its budget deficit problem. While reassessing costly benefit programs is in itself entirely reasonable, the White House's backdoor style an describing and disclosing the concept warrant disdain...
...worldwide and a vast computer complex in Maryland allow the NSA to tap into and record all electronic messages entering or leaving the country. A 1975 post-Watergate Senate panel described the NSA setup as a "giant vacuum cleaner." But unlike domestic law-enforcement agencies, which must obtain a warrant from a Federal Judge before tapping phone messages, the NSA gets warrants from a special secret panel of judges...
There are several problems with the NSA's structure. By shrouding the warrant process in secrecy, the government restricts the public from finding out or reviewing when and why wiretapping is authorized. The use of secret judges also distorts the warrant-requirement limits placed on domestic law-enforcement agencies. In the Jabara case, for example, the NSA supplied tapped information to the FBI, 17 domestic agencies and three foreign governments. The FBI, which never formally charged the lawyer with any crime, could not have obtained a warrant...
...dangerous potential of the NSA is obvious from incidents like the Jabara case. Congress should open an investigation of the NSA and its operations, especially the secret warrant process. If our government plans to expand its ability to keep track of its own citizens, the matter should at least be brought out into the open...
...years ago, women's soccer had become big enough to warrant an AIAW national tournament and despite losing the Ivy title to Brown. Harvard was there and ended up with a third place finish...