NY Post Exploits Kidnapped U.S. Troops To Push For Expanded Spying Authority

[rodeodance]

so so many battles to fight----and no doubt the msm will help out Bushco and Repugs in congress!

http://thinkprogress.org/?tag=Intelligence

NY Post Exploits Kidnapped U.S. Troops To Push For Expanded Spying Authority

......... “The intelligence community was forced to abandon our soldiers because of the law,” a senior congressional staffer with access to the classified case told The Post.

In reality, the delay in obtaining the order can largely be traced to the red tape and incompetence within the Bush administration. Here’s why:

1) Gonzales’ DoJ unprepared for battle. Alberto Gonzales’ Justice Department “wrangl” with intelligence officials on whether there was “probable cause” for surveillance. Filled with inept political cronies, the DoJ said it encountered “novel legal issues” that it hadn’t considered, necessitating a four hour delay.

2)..........

3) Emergency warrants obtainable in ‘five seconds.’ McConnell claimed an earlier FISA court ruling requiring warrants for foreign-to-foreign surveillance had caused the lag time. But to “get an emergency warrant, you just have to believe the facts support the application that someone is an agent of a foreign power,” according to a government source. “That takes approximately five seconds to establish if you’re going after an Iraqi insurgent.”

Competence — not unfettered spying power — is what the Bush administration needs.

UPDATE: House Intelligence Committee Chairman Silvestre Reyes (D-TX) said today the “inexcusable delays in the collection intended to save Specialist Alex Jimenez, Private First Class Joseph Anzak, and Private Byron W. Fouty was the fault of internal bureaucratic bungling by the Bush Administration, not the law.” Read the full Reyes memo HERE.

[lvx35]

1. You gotta love it. Every time they fuck up its because the didn't have enough power.

I mean, imagine if it was a teenage kid: "Dad, I totalled my car because it didn't handle well enough. I need a Porsche..."

[jzodda]

2. Lets remind the readers here who owns the NY Post

Yep you guessed it if you didn't already know. Rupert Murdoch, the owner of Fox Noise.