[Cboldt]

Nolan admits that there aren't enough facts re NSA/FISA bruhaha to justifay reaching a conclusion - maybe, if she knew the facts, she says, she'd find the surveillance to "be okay."

Duh.

[LisaFab]

Do the senators have time limits for their questioning of these panelists?

[OXENinFLA]

Nolan admits that there aren't enough facts re NSA/FISA bruhaha to justifay reaching a conclusion - maybe, if she knew the facts, she says, she'd find the surveillance to "be okay."

Well, just take a look at what Chuckie said yesterday.

SCHUMER:I do have a few other issues that I do want to talk to you about. But, first, there's just a general question on presidential power.

Let's just assume that it was found that the president's right to wiretap people, the way we're discussing it now in terms of the recent NSA revelations, was found constitutional.

Would there be a different standard if, say, the president -- does that necessarily allow the president to then go ahead and go into people's homes here in America, American citizens, without a warrant?

Does the one necessarily lead to the other?

ALITO: I would have to understand -- I would have to see the ground for holding the wiretapping or the electronic surveillance constitutional before seeing whether it would apply in the case of other searches and seizures.

SCHUMER: But let's assume it is constitutional.

Because IT IS CONSTITUTIONAL!?!?

[Txsleuth]

Yes...Nolan said she didn't have enough facts...but, Leahy wanted her to go by what she has read in the press...as FACTS....

There goes any illusion that the Press and the dems aren't working hand in hand.