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bigtree

(86,005 posts) Sat Jul 6, 2013, 10:56 AM Jul 2013

John Roberts: Surveillance Court Decider

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John Roberts will appoint every single surveillance judge until the day he dies or retires: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/07/05/did-you-know-john-roberts-is-also-chief-justice-of-the-nsas-surveillance-state/ …

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John Roberts: Surveillance Court Decider (Original Post) bigtree Jul 2013 OP

those creepy baby blue eyes bobduca Jul 2013 #1

I found myself reviewing a history of jurisprudence during HardTimes99 Jul 2013 #2

. bigtree Jul 2013 #3

Who should appoint them? The NLA? The POTUS? Congress? KittyWampus Jul 2013 #4

the entire system stinks bigtree Jul 2013 #5

bobduca

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1. those creepy baby blue eyes

Reply to bigtree (Original post)

Sat Jul 6, 2013, 10:58 AM

Jul 2013

appointing the secret judges to make sure that the secret wiretaps are secretly legal.

HardTimes99

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2. I found myself reviewing a history of jurisprudence during

Reply to bobduca (Reply #1)

Sat Jul 6, 2013, 11:06 AM

Jul 2013

the Third Reich, stumbling upon Hans Globke and then turning away from the whole matter in disgust at my descent into Godwin turf:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Globke

Thanks for the 'baby blue eyes' which got the whole thing started.

FWIW, Globke may not even be the most appropriate analogue, as his duties more closely approximate those of John Yoo.