Sunday, February 12, 2006

Lying About FISA

The Administration's new FISA defense is factually false

Glenn Greenwald notes, Gen Hayden's excuse for the Administration bypassing getting FISA warrants "is because the 'probable cause' standard for obtaining a FISA warrant was too onerous (and prevented them from obtaining warrants they needed to eavesdrop)".

Well, that's obviously bullshit, as Greenwald points out, since the Administration, when previously offered a chance to change that very standard, said "oh, no, we're fine."

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