While almost everyone with any sense realizes that Bush has committed a Federal crime, and almost everyone without any sense is standing by their man because he's a fellow Republican, Larry Johnson reminds us:
President Bush is wrong. You don't have to break a law to get quick action. Not only can you catch terrorists using FISA, we have caught terrorists. The real story behind the unauthorized wiretaps authorized by President Bush probably concerns the source of the info. It appears the most likely explanation is that the Bush Administration did not want to have to tell a Federal judge that they were using information obtained from interrogations that violated the spirit and the letter of the Geneva Conventions. Instead of protecting the nation the President may be covering his derrier. [Roving Wiretaps Capture a Terrorist]It's also not unlikely that President Bush refused to seek FISA oversight because had he done so he would have made known the practice of illegally obtaining intelligence from "U.S. persons" on U.S. soil continues. Sound familiar?
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