Wiretapping program sparked legal concerns within hours of its adoption.»

[Ichingcarpenter]

In a new book entitled “Bush’s Law: The Remaking of American Justice,” NYT journalist Eric Lichtblau writes that the warrantless wiretapping set off legal concerns inside the Bush administration almost immediately after being implemented in October 2001. Inside the FBI, “technicians stumbled onto the N.S.A.’s program accidentally within 12 hours of its inception, setting off what officials described as a brief firestorm of anxiety among senior officials. … ‘What’s going on here? Is this legal?’ one F.B.I. official asked after learning of the N.S.A. operation on American soil.”


http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/30/wiretapping-program-sparked-legal-concerns-within-hours-of-its-adoption/

[ColbertWatcher]

1. Not before...

...or during its formulation. But after.

Why is it republicans always manage to claim moral questions only after they adopt a morally questionable policy.

That they all support.

Which no one else would ever consider adopting due to its blatant illegality.

Seriously, who else would've thought that spying on Americans without a warrantt was legal, while at the same time saying asking for warrants is old-fashioned.

[jimshoes]

2. Wonder if we'll ever find out

who they were really wiretapping?

[ellenfl]

3. do we even have to ask? i would start with siegelman and spitzer. eom

[L. Coyote]

6. We already know. Everyone. n/t

[ThomWV]

4. The Senate can't hear about it but any yahoo in the FBI can just stumble over it?

The world's most super secrete program and they stumbled over it within 12 hours of its initiation? And when might that have been, if I may ask. Some say that it began after 9/11, some say long before that.

[seemslikeadream]

5. Is there any wonder why the is NO opposition to this criminal enterprise?