America spying on terrorists without court approval

[Pete_G]

I'm still trying to wrap my head around this whole story.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4536838.stm

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/12/...nsa/index.html

Now, I'm admittedly FAR more anti-big brother then most people and this sort of thing really ticks me off. Eavesdropping on American citizens without court approval basically makes me really uncomfortable with where this country is going and makes me start yelling about regime change through any means possible. But some of the people being looked into probably aren't American citizens, they just happen to be within our borders. Do they deserve the same rights and protections we have as American citizens? If it was a time sensitive issue would the court really take that long to give clearance to spying on someone suspected of having ties to Al Queda, citizen or not? We have a court specifically for this sort of thing, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Court. Why not use it?

Not taking sides on this one, (yet) just opening it up for discussion.