AP sics the truth on Scotty's "truthiness" re. Gore.

[trogdor]

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/17/ap-reports-facts

McClellan said the Clinton-Gore administration had engaged in warrantless physical searches, and he cited an FBI search of the home of CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames without permission from a judge. He said Clinton’s deputy attorney general, Jamie Gorelick, had testified before Congress that the president had the inherent authority to engage in physical searches without warrants.

“I think his hypocrisy knows no bounds,” McClellan said of Gore.

But at the time of the Ames search in 1993 and when Gorelick testified a year later, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act required warrants for electronic surveillance for intelligence purposes, but did not cover physical searches. The law was changed to cover physical searches in 1995 under legislation that Clinton supported and signed.

Bush’s attorney general, Alberto Gonzales, made the same arguments as McClellan during interviews Monday on CNN’s “Larry King Live” and Fox News Channel’s “Hannity & Colmes.”

[Atman]

1. The only thing that matters: get the talking point out to the sheeple

The base which needs something to "talk up" savors this kind of shit. It gives them something to hang on to. It will always easier for them to believe the evil left-wing media conspiracy is simply covering for Clinton-Gore, and McClellan/BushCo know that perfectly well. Just spoon fed 'em the lie, they're grown-ups, they can decide for themselves what's true!