June 24, 2007 (LPAC)--According to AP, Judge Royce C. Lamberth, who was chief of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court from 1995 to 2002, speaking at the convention of the American Library Association, criticized Bush's decision to order warrantless surveillance after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. Lambert, who was appointed by President Ronald Reagan and named chief of the FISA court by Chief Jusice William H. Rehnquist, said it was proper for executive branch agencies to conduct such surveillances. "But what we have found in the history of our country is that you can't trust the executive. The executive has to fight and win the war at all costs. But judges understand the war has to be fought, but it can't be at all costs. We still have to preserve our civil liberties. Judges are the kinds of people you want to entrust that kind of judgment to more than the executive. We have to understand you can fight the war [on terrorism] and lose everything if you have no civil liberties left when you get through fighting the war."