Wire Tapping

I don't generally like to link to Arianna Huffington. I'll link to her Huffington Post site when I think there's important information there, but she herself is too prone to knee-jerk responses for my taste.

However, this post by her is actually a pretty good debunking of the main talking points in support of the NSA warrantless wiretap program.

It's worth a few minutes reading, if you want to understand how the Administration talking points aren't exactly wholly accurate.

Oh, and keep in mind, they STILL haven't really explained how the within-72-hours-retroactive warrants allowed under the FISA court would have been detrimental to the war on terrorism. That, to me, is the crux of it. It really doesn't matter if various different groups were on board or not. When there was a legal process to be followed, and one which would not even have been an undue burden in fighting terrorism, and they just couldn't be bothered to follow it, there's just no excuse.

Liam.