Judge resigns seat on spy court

In a stinging rebuke to the Bush administration's covert domestic wiretap program, a federal judge who has been one of the judiciary's most intrusive and feisty critics of the Guantánamo Bay detention center quit a secret court that oversees U.S. intelligence wiretaps.


....''Apparently Judge Robertson did not want to aid and abet criminal NSA electronic surveillance,'' said a statement from the New York Center for Constitutional Rights, which has for four years alleged that the administration is overstepping its war powers -- in both its Guantánamo court and enemy combatant practices.