After all, isn’t it the Right who claims to be “The Party Of The Strict Interpretation Of The United States Constitution”? Answer: YEP. What makes Mr. Morrissey’s response, joined of course, by other so-called “Strict Constitutional Constuctionist Right” bloggers, so nutty is the fact that this ruling essentially removes the need for the FISA Court in the first place. That’s right — who needs ‘em if they themselves say the Executive doesn’t need ‘em? Fine — I’ve never thought a “secret court” was Constitutional in the first place and at least NOW they’ve gone ahead and ruled themselves to be “irrelevant”. Fine then — tear down their walls and send the secret judges and their support personnel to the free soup line NOW.

Next, these “sheep” of the Right are accepting for a FACT the claim by this claim by the FISA Court ruling:

“… It found that the Protect America Act did not violate the Constitution because the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures, contained an exception for the collection of foreign intelligence information. …”

Why would I refer to these normally-intelligent bloggers whom I normally admire despite our disagreements “sheep”? Obviously because when you take that little “snippet” and accept it to be fact without doing a little bit of fact-checking first, you remind me of the “sheep” in the George Orwell classic “Animal Farm“. If you recall, and/or if you’ve never read the book, the pigs in power kept adding to the seven simple statements making up the animals’ “constitution” at the farm and the “sheep” kept believing they must have just missed it or forgotten it was in the original document in the first place.