Sunday, December 18, 2005

 

(Grasping At) The Last Straw?

OK, the REALLY IRONIC thing to me about this latest "scandal" is that Bushco is being reprimanded for not complying with FISA court warrant requirements.

That's like Hitler being called on the carpet by the Reichtag for exceeding his authority under the Nuremberg Laws.

FISA is a SECRET court system, only established in 1978. The whole procedure takes place under top-secret rules, and even the court's decisions, once made, remain secret.

Of the 17,742 applications for secret warrants made to FISA by the government over the past quarter-century, you want to know how many have been rejected?

At last count -- four. And at the time Bush decided to sidestep this pro forma requirement? Zero. Zip. Zilch. Nada. None.

Not one.

posted by Michael 5:33 PM