Sancho Panza wrote:
> wrote in message
> news:1136589034.404430.133520@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> >FISA set up a system for expanding and authorizing such
> > things in 1978.
>
> Actually, quite a few experts on intelligence and surveillance think that
> FISA was an effort to clamp down on what had been up to the Church
> committee, as posted, an essentially unbridled operation.
Ummm, yeah, exactly. That's why I have been saying:
"Secret wiretapping of foreign communications has been legal under FISA
since 1978. What Bush has done -- and the only difference in this issue
-- is allege he can do it without obeying the law.
"Nothing prior to 9/11 prevented Bush from obtaining a warrant, even
after the fact, to listen in on Atta. He's contending he's above the
law, and that's what Cheney is defending."
Bush wants to do illegally something that he already can do legally, if
he just sticks with the law.
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