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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (66025)	5/16/2006 7:48:42 PM
From: TopCat	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 173976

"Clinton always used the FISA court. Always." How would you know?

To: American Spirit who wrote (66025)	5/16/2006 7:57:21 PM
From: Father Terrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

What exactly did the spying entail? A record of telephone numbers. Not quite the same thing as listening to phone conversations. However, I would like to tape all of your personal phone conversations and sell them to insomniacs as a sleep aid.

To: American Spirit who wrote (66025)	5/16/2006 8:08:14 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 173976

The law that President Clinton signed into law and that was approved by voice votes in 1994 by a Democrat-majority House and a Democrat-majority Senate not only made clear the phone companies' "duty" to cooperate, it authorized $500 million in taxpayer funds to reimburse the phone companies for equipment "enabling the government, pursuant to a court order or other lawful authorization, to access call-identifying information that is reasonably available to the carrier." Again, the law, by referring to "other lawful authorization," states clearly that a court order isn't the only form of lawful authorization possible.