[mojito]

What friggin’ moron ever thought that lawyers should be in control of events in a war zone!? If you put lawyers in a room anywhere under any circumstances it will take them ten hour to reach an agreement. That's fine, I guess, if we're talking about financing for municipal bonds.

On the battlefield it's a recipe for disaster.

[Dave346]

This restriction of foreign to foreign wiretaps if the communications passes through US territory is from a July 2007 ruling by a FISA judge. It is a really stupid ruling and it is costing us a lot of valuable intelligence (including in this case).
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/f/foreign_intelligence_surveillance_act_fisa/index.html

[Lancey Howard]

What friggin’ moron ever thought that lawyers should be in control of events in a war zone!?

That would be the Commander-in-Chief, George W. Bush.