Novak on Robertson
Bob Novak, who knows a thing or two about national security leaks, profiles the FISA court judge who resigned in protest over the NSA eavesdropping story:
Federal District Judge James Robertson, who resigned from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) court in protest over secret wiretaps ordered by President Bush, is regarded in Washington legal circles as one of President Bill Clinton’s most liberal and partisan judicial appointments.
Does it mean anything? Not really…but if any judge was probably standing on the edge of the cliff just waiting for a push, it would have been this one…
It appears Judge Robertson sacrificed little in ineffective protest since he remains a federal judge in another capacity. He probably did the Bush Administration a favor because Robertson is the picture of why FISA is ineffective in the case of foreign monitoring.