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24 Oct 2007 06:27 pm
Sullum On Mukasey
Worried:
Did Mukasey mean that the Constitution authorized the president to
ignore FISA's warrant requirements, as his predecessor, Alberto
Gonzales, argued? No matter how many times he was asked, Mukasey
wouldn't say, instead retreating to the lame argument that Congress,
without realizing it, amended FISA by authorizing the use of military
force against the perpetrators of the September 11 attacks.
Even as the administration continues to insist that the NSA's warrantless surveillance was legal, it is pressing
Congress to give the telecommunications companies that cooperated with
the program retroactive legal immunity. Immunity for what? For
assisting the government with its perfectly lawful surveillance?
Clearly,
Bush wants to give these companies a free pass for breaking the law in
the name of national security. They shouldn't get one, and neither
should he.
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