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Jewish World Review August 7, 2007 / 23 Menachem-Av, 5767 Eavesdropping on terrorists By Rich Lowry http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Little did they know it, but terrorist suspects living in Pakistan recently had their rights to privacy enhanced. It happened through the magic of adventurous judicial interpretation of an outdated U.S. law. Back in 1978, when disco was king, gas lines were long and no one owned a cellular telephone, Congress passed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. It sought to constrain the president's power to monitor communications for intelligence purposes here in the U.S. by requiring him to get a warrant from a special FISA court. The court would have to be convinced that there was probable cause to believe that a target of surveillance was an "agent of a foreign power." Congress didn't mean to include overseas communications under the law. So "wire" communications came under the law's purview, but not most "radio" intercepts, since chatter abroad was picked up by satellites. But the law's drafters weren't clairvoyants. They presumably didn't foresee the decline of disco (let alone the demise of the 8-track tape and the LP) or, much more importantly, the telecommunications revolution that gave us fiber optics and packet switching. Now two people can be talking overseas — say, from Afghanistan to Pakistan — and their communication could travel in a packet of digital data through U.S. networks, where it can be conveniently surveilled. At least in theory. The FISA court recently ruled that these entirely foreign-to-foreign communications also require a warrant. Thus, the restrictions of FISA have grown more extensive at a time when — facing a terrorist foe whose tactics constantly adapt to technological advances — we need more flexibility than ever. It won't always be possible to meet the probable-cause standard on overseas targets. Information on them might be third- or fourthhand. Even if we have the goods, getting a warrant can take days and requires filing an application 2 or 3 inches thick. Speed is of the essence, because terrorists quickly discard phones after using them, and we need to act on numbers found on killed or captured terrorists before their contacts realize they've been compromised. According to USA Today, the administration lost crucial hours getting emergency warrants to monitor communications we thought could lead to the Iraqi insurgents who kidnapped three American soldiers back in May. That our intelligence agencies have to worry about warrants at all in a combat setting is testament to the mind-boggling absurdity of the FISA regime. Over the objections of most Democrats, Congress has now passed and President Bush has signed a temporary fix to this mess (it expires in six months). Foreign-to-foreign intercepts won't require a warrant. The most intense point of contention was over when a foreign target of surveillance calls someone in the U.S. Democrats wanted to require warrants for those intercepts, but the law basically exempts them as well — properly. As a practical matter, it is impossible to know when a foreign target is going to call the U.S. and makes no sense to drop surveillance on him when he does, pending a warrant. If we did, every terrorist suspect would be well-advised to call the U.S. in the hopes that probable cause couldn't be established to keep surveilling him. Yes, innocent people in the U.S. talking to foreign targets will have those communications monitored, but that can't be helped. Should we stop listening to the conversations of a Mafia don just because he occasionally calls his tailor? One of the Democratic alternatives to the FISA fix proposed simply hiring more lawyers for U.S. intelligence. Democrats have criticized President Bush's call to spread liberty abroad as naive overreach, but it is positively hardheaded compared with the Democrats' campaign to spread U.S. constitutional rights to foreigners suspected of terrorist ties. Those rights are meant for people living under and accepting our government, and bestowing them on foreign enemies of the United States only hampers our ability to fight the war they have forced on us. Those terrorist suspects in Pakistan have no privacy rights we are bound to respect. Every weekday JewishWorldReview.com publishes what many in the media and Washington consider "must-reading". Sign up for the daily JWR update. It's free. Just click here. Comment by clicking here. Rich Lowry Archives © 2007 King Features Syndicate

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