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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: sylvester80 who wrote (181157)2/5/2006 2:07:44 PM
From: Oeconomicus  Read Replies (4) of 281500
 
Rather verbose for a straw man. Oh, if he only had a brain ...

The REAL "legal defense for the surveillance program" is actually very simple. It is that the program operates WITHIN, not beyond, the law. The program was designed specifically to target Al Qaeda operatives outside the US. It just so happens that sometimes they communicate with people inside the US and those communications get monitored just like those that don't cross the border. But if the critics took five minutes to actually read FISA, they'd know that no warrant is EVER required for such monitoring.

Gen. Hayden, who designed the program, explained it very well this morning in an interview with George Stephanopolous. He said that if Osama Bin Laden were to make a call from anywhere outside the US to anyone inside the US, the program the President authorized could monitor that call. But if he somehow managed to cross a bridge into the US and then made the same call, the NSA could NOT monitor the call except with a court order. That is WHOLLY consistent with FISA.

Most of the attacks on Bush over this program are based on the premise that the program is unlawful. It isn't. And no one in the administration has made the ludicrous "it's a crisis - screw the law" argument you posted, or any other of the platoon of straw men called to duty by the anti-Bush cabal at the DNC.
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