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No, retroactive warrants are not ok in criminal cases, and do not exist. There are numerous exceptions to the warrant requirement for law enforcement. Crime in progress, imminent threat, possibility of destruction of evidence, etc. etc. All these things allow searches without warrants. Law enforcement officials are fully armed without retroactive warrants.
FISA warrants, where we are dealing with foreign powers, are a whole different animal. And the FISA warrant structure works very well in that context. As long as it's followed.
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We will stay the course. [8/30/06]
We will stay the course, we will complete the job in Iraq. [8/4/05]
We will stay the course *** We’re just going to stay the course. [12/15/03]
And my message today to those in Iraq is: We’ll stay the course. [4/13/04]
And that’s why we’re going to stay the course in Iraq. [4/16/04]
And so we’ve got tough action in Iraq. But we will stay the course. [4/5/04]
Well, hey, listen, we’ve never been “stay the course” [10/21/06]
--- George W. Bush, President of the United States of America
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