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> "I want to be absolutely clear, what the president ordered in this case was a crime"

25 January 2006, 19:38

Not a single person has said that the wiretaps should not be done. Nor is the President or NSA crippled by having to get a FISA warrant before recording a conversation, according to law, they have 72 hours after the fact to get the warrant, which is little more than a rubber stamp. A rubber stamp that tells us what they are doing. So our ability to do this work, which EVERYONE agrees is important, is unhindered by the law. The only reasons I can imagine why they would not want to get these warrants (which the president clearly told us he WAS getting before he was forced to admit otherwise) is (A) they are lazy, (B) they are casting the net so wide that they know it would generate some backlash if people knew about it, or (C) they are doing whatever they want and feel that they are abovethe law. In either case, the national security argument rings hollow. And attacking those who feel that the president is NOT above the law is best accomplished by first building a straw man who says that there should be no wiretapping at all (which no one is saying).