Brief history of warrantless searches
… conducted in the name of national security, without huge sensational splashes about them in the New York Times, I might add:
The ‘Plame Platoon’
Max Boot has a good piece today in the LA Times about the ‘Plame Platoon’ (heh – I like that) and how they’ve gone mysteriously silent on ‘leaks which harm our national security’ in light of the recent NYTimes story about the President authorizing ‘eavesdropping’ in the aftermath of 9-11.
Past presidents and the NSA
Sigh … the more that comes to light about past presidents and their ‘eavesdropping’ the more this so-called ‘scandal’ – which has been reported to the extent you’d think it was worse than Watergate – becomes much ado about *nothing*, outside of a President trying to do his job by doing his level best to prevent another terrorist attack on our soil via using established precedent in extraordinary times.
Roll Call 648
Last Friday the House of Representatives held a vote on a bill titled: “Expressing the commitment of the House of Representatives to achieving victory in Iraq.”
WSJ: “Thank you for wiretapping”
The Wall Street Journal editorial page has a great piece up today on explaining why the President’s critics are flat out wrong on the ‘eavesdropping’ scandal: