Judge orders end to warrantless wiretapping

As reported here, Federal Judge Anna Diggs Taylor, a Carter administration appointee who sits on the U.S. District Court in Detroit has ruled that the Terrorists Surveillance Program run by the NSA at the direction of President Bush - you know, the program that monitors overseas communications from or to people with known links to terrorists, which likely played a role in the foiling of the multi-plane bomb plot in the UK - is unconstitutional. [Emphasis mine]

Ordinarily, I would chew this apart, and inject my own thoughts and comments, but this time, I'll let the editors and authors of a couple of other web sites do that for me, since I'm not a lawyer. Suffice it to say that, as a Carter appointee, do you suppose that she has an 'agenda' by any chance?

The OpinionJournal Editors weigh in here (free subscription required).

The National Review Online Editors weigh in here.

Andrew C. McCarthy, also of National Review Online weighs in here.

And Bryan Cunningham, also of National Review Online weighs in here.