> Without FISA, the intelligence agencies have less oversight and fewer restrictions.
What restrictions are you talking about? Constitutional warrant requirement was sidestepped using this law and you are still cheering here.
What restrictions are you talking about? Constitutional warrant requirement was sidestepped using this law and you are still cheering here.
I’m not the one here cheering for demise of constitutional republic…
I am seriously asking whether being flat-out unconstitutional is worse than building a (legislated and approved) backdoor around the constitution, yes.
I mean, better than both would be to just follow the constitution, but that wasn't the question.
As you noticed, following constitution is apparently not an option here. Being unconstitutional and ignored, there was at least some hope for improvement, but codification gave us a clear answer that elected representatives are, at best, only selectively interested in supporting constitution.