RE: So, Allahpundit, it must be perfectly legal to make public the words of the party that was NOT the target.
I don’t think that was the point of the article. The point of AllahPundit’s article was simply to show WHO the target of the surveillance really was.
The leak to the press itself is illegal and whoever did it must be discovered and prosecuted.
It wasn’t the point of the article. But reading the article gives the absolute impression that as long as the Russian ambassador was the target, everything was legal. It would A, not encumber the article, and B, improve its accuracy fundamentally, to mention that leaking wiretapped conversations of innocent, non-targeted Americans is a major breach of the law.