Thursday, January 15, 2009

VIDEO-- Feingold Questions Attorney General Nominee Eric Holder on FISA

By GottaLaff

This is the video I've been looking for. Think Progress, thank you. However-- and this is a big "however":

The New York Times reports that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court is expected to issue a major ruling validating “the power of the president and Congress to wiretap international phone calls and intercept e-mail messages without a court order,”even when U.S. residents’ personal communications are involved:

In validating the government’s wide authority to collect foreign intelligence, it may offer legal credence to the Bush administration’s repeated assertions that the president has constitutional authority to act without specific court approval in ordering national security eavesdropping.

Huh? Wha? No. Nonononono. No.

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