Oh yes, we know something's legal just because the White House said so. If only Nixon could have used this argument to get out of Watergate, the government to wash COINTELPRO under the rug.
correction: helped his entire country. The BBC is so biased!
The worthless Jimma Carter did it. So did *Bubba Squirt. (Apparently, according to the one term peanut, JFK & RFK are guilty, too.)
Carter allowed surveillance in 1977
Originally published 11:07 p.m., February 10, 2006, updated 12:00 a.m., February 11, 2006
Former President Jimmy Carter, who publicly rebuked President Bush's warrantless eavesdropping program this week during the funeral of Coretta Scott King and at a campaign event, used similar surveillance against suspected spies.
"Under the Bush administration, there's been a disgraceful and illegal decision -- we're not going to the let the judges or the Congress or anyone else know that we're spying on the American people," Mr. Carter said Monday in Nevada when his son Jack announced his Senate campaign.
"And no one knows how many innocent Americans have had their privacy violated under this secret act," he said.
The next day at Mrs. King's high-profile funeral, Mr. Carter evoked a comparison to the Bush policy when referring to the "secret government wiretapping" of civil rights leader Martin Luther King.
But in 1977, Mr. Carter and his attorney general, Griffin B. Bell, authorized warrantless electronic surveillance used in the conviction of two men for spying on behalf of Vietnam.
http://www.washtimes.com/news/2006/feb/10/20060210-110722-2189r/
The way she's taking things you'd think she fears the wire-tapping is going to catch her talking to her boyfriends in Saudi or something.
Keeping America safe is not a scheme...It's a duty.
So their # 1 lobby, trial lawyers can cash in
Their stalling was simply a way to try and make the case for open up the flood gates of lawsuits