FISA court judge has conscience, resigns.

U.S. judge on spy court resigns post
Letter follows reports on Bush wiretap OKs

By Carol D. Leonnig and Dafna Linzer, The Washington Post. Post writers Jonathan Weisman and Charles Babington and researcher Julie Tate contributed to this report, as did Tribune news services
Published December 21, 2005

WASHINGTON -- A federal judge has resigned from the court that oversees government surveillance in intelligence cases in protest of President Bush's secret authorization of a domestic spying program, according to two sources.

U.S. District Judge James Robertson, one of 11 members of the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, sent a letter to Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. late Monday notifying him of his resignation without providing an explanation.

Two associates familiar with his decision said Tuesday that Robertson privately expressed deep concern that the warrantless surveillance program authorized by the president in 2001 was legally questionable and may have tainted the work of the FISA court, established under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

Robertson, appointed to the federal bench by President Bill Clinton in 1994 and later was selected by Chief Justice William Rehnquist to serve on the foreign intelligence court, declined to comment Tuesday.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0512210324dec21,1,3760766.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed

But bush will replace him with Brownie, or someting like Brownie, from the neocon crony corps.

which could it be?

"What I've heard some of the judges say is they feel they've participated in a Potemkin court."

www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1999426

he's taking taxpayer's money for a job that has been "outsourced":sarcasm:

Want to cut gov't waste?

Get rid of all oversight committees,agencies,and laws that hinder this good Xian man and those that do his work

More:sarcasm:

in the front of a little restaurant while drug deals are going down back in the kitchen.