# Warrantless surveillance program ruled illegal (secretly, several months ago) **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [August 2, 2007, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warrantless-surveillance-program-ruled-illegal-secretly-several-months-ago/414144 "2007-08-02T16:41:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2007, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warrantless-surveillance-program-ruled-illegal-secretly-several-months-ago/414144/21 "2007-08-06T15:07:15Z")
[FBI agents, under a classified search warrant, just raided the home of a former DoJ lawyer suspected of leaking the surveillance program to the press in 2005.](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20121795/site/newsweek/) ---
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2007, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warrantless-surveillance-program-ruled-illegal-secretly-several-months-ago/414144/22 "2007-08-06T16:02:43Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] Story [here:](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20075751/site/newsweek) 1. Should Congress approve the proposal? [/quote] Hell no. If they overstepped the bounds of the FISA they will overstep the bounds of an expanded FISA. Zealots who act in the name of “national security” can never have enough power. > [@](#): > > 1. Isn’t this whole thing getting way too Kafkaesque?! Precedent-setting court rulings aren’t supposed to be **secret!** How are lawyers supposed to research them?! How are other judges supposed to take them into account?! It sure is. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warrantless-surveillance-program-ruled-illegal-secretly-several-months-ago/414144.md?page=1)