This will be in tomorrows New York Times: Republican Who Oversees N.S.A. Calls for Wiretap Inquiry By ERIC LICHTBLAU WASHINGTON, Feb. 7  A House Republican whose subcommittee oversees the National Security Agency broke ranks with the White House on Tuesday and called for a full Congressional inquiry into the Bush administration’s domestic eavesdropping program. […]
There was a heckler in the crowd during the hearing. He started yelling that you must get a court order to wiretap. It provided for a great comical relief during a bunch of spin.
Specter just asked Gonzalez if when they do go to the FISA court for a warrant if they disclose that their information for the warrant was obtained by warrantless taps. Gonzalez would not answer because he didn’t feel comfortable going in to it. This was a very important question. If FISA is denying warrants because […]
A point needs to be brought up here.Crooks and Liars has an audio clip up of Sean Hannity and his lying about the FISA stature. Hannity: If Osama Bin Laden calls the United States, they’re saying we need to go spend 76 hours and get a court order before we can record that phone conversation-that’s […]
Turns out Alito also defended the Regan administration in warantless wiretaps. Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito defended the right of government officials to order domestic wiretaps when he worked for the Reagan Justice Department, documents released Friday show. He advocated a step by step approach to strengthening the hand of officials in a 1984 memo […]
Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter has a great article this week about “Snoopgate” and how Bush called the editor of the New York Times to the Oval Office last year to try and kill the story. He ended up with only a 1 year delay. Dec. 19, 2005 – Finally we have a Washington scandal that […]