Clinton says he DID NOT use warrantless wiretaps

[kpete]

Clinton says he didn't use warrantless wiretaps
Bloomberg News



Former President Clinton said Thursday that he never ordered wiretaps of American citizens without obtaining a court order, as President Bush has acknowledged he has done.

Clinton, in an interview broadcast Thursday on the ABC News program ''Nightline,'' said his administration either received court approval before authorizing a wiretap or went to court within three days after to get permission, as required by law.

''We either went there and asked for the approval or, if there was an emergency and we had to do it beforehand, then we filed within three days afterward and gave them a chance to second guess it,'' Clinton told ABC.

Bush said in December that he authorized wiretaps without obtaining court permission and defended the practice as a ''vital tool'' in tracking terrorist suspects and accomplices.

''I don't have enough facts to know why there would be some reluctance to go there,'' Clinton told ABC. ''I felt that the court and the setup was more than enough to do what we needed to do.''

http://www.sltrib.com/nationworld/ci_3398375

[Zenlitened]

1. Impeach Bush.

:grr:

[blm]

2. One MONTH later? The lie has traveled and is set in stone and Americans

are already tired of the issue - the corporate media sez so.

Why is the media only asking Clinton about this NOW?

[zbdent]

3. Dumbass Bob Golic tried to push home that talking point

and I just had to laugh how badly he wanted to smear Clinton.

When the caller said that Clinton didn't do it, BG responded:

"Yes he did. It's just that nobody found out about it!"

The sheep nod in unison, unaware that he contradicted himself. If nobody found out about it, how was it knowledge to BG?

:banghead:

[TahitiNut]

4. That's the power of "revealed truth" in faith-based politics.

After all, it makes a "level playing field" for those without the skills to employ either logic or objectivity. The Reich is the ideology for people with mental, moral, or ethical disabilities.