By
John Dean, FindLaw.com. Posted April 5, 2006.
President George Bush continues to openly and defiantly ignore the
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) — the 1978 statute
prohibiting electronic inspection of Americans’ telephone and email
communications with people outside the United States without a
court-authorized warrant. (According to U.S. News & World Report,
the President may also have authorized warrantless break-ins and other
physical surveillance, such as opening regular mail, in violation of
the Fourth Amendment.) [read more]