01.24.06
NSA and the Constitution
Posted in Spying at 8:15 pm by wb42
My goodness. This General Hayden stuff is even worse when you HEAR it. It’s been all over the blogs lately, but it’s incredible in person. Just watched Olbermann take it apart. And, all the had to do was play the news conference tape and then quote the Constitution. Kos takes it and runs with it.
A Reasonable Suspicion of Illegality
The first thing that struck me when General Hayden made the ignorant observation that the Fourth Amendment didn’t include a probable cause standard was that someone needed to tattoo the Bill of Rights on his chest, backwards, so he could read it every time he looked in the mirror in the morning. The second thing that struck me about his insistence that a “reasonable suspicion” standard prevails over probable cause for the spying program was that this Administration and the Congress already rejected [...]