Administration Lays Out Legal Case for Wiretapping Program – New York Times

It still doesn’t work. The Justice Department has tried again to justify the administration’s illegal wiretapping program. This time in a forty-two page white paper. This may be a bigger document, but it still depends stongly on the 2001 Congressional authorization. The New York Times has the story here: Administration Lays Out Legal Case for Wiretapping Program

Nothing that the Administration has said comes close to justifying their actions. This is especially true in view of the recent reports that practically all the information passed on to the FBI by the NSA and gleaned from this illegal program led either to dead ends or to innocent citizens.

Recent opinion polls still give a split decision. About half of all Americans think the Administration is right to conduct wiretapping without warrants. I suppose that the split encourages Bush and Cheney to continue: some people just don’t care.

But we do. This new white paper doesn’t change a thing.