Judge Nap: FISA Doesn’t Need ‘Disinfectant,’ It Needs ‘Extinction’

‘When intelligence agents want search warrants, they should go to a federal judge and present evidence of probable cause of crime, and if they can’t they can’t get the search warrant’

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NAPOLITANO: "I’ve been a harsh critic of FISA for 40 years. It's 40 years old, it was enacted in 1978."
FAULKNER: "When you were just a child."
NAPOLITANO: "Thank you. It lowers the constitutional bar for issuing search warrants. And the Congress cannot change the Constitution, but it attempted to do so and succeeded in doing so with respect to FISA. So I don’t think FISA needs disinfectant, I think FISA needs extinction. When FBI agents and intelligence agents want search warrants, they should go to regular Article 3 judge, a federal judge, and present evidence of probable cause of crime, and if they can’t they can’t get the search warrant. That’s what the Constitution says."

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