It's enough to make your head spin. Besides the facts that keep coming out, but that the uber-right and minions can continue follow this administration so blindly.
Case in point (to borrow Rod Sterling's line):
The Bush administration rejected a 2002 Senate proposal that would have made it easier for FBI agents to obtain surveillance warrants in terrorism cases, concluding that the system was working well and that it would likely be unconstitutional to lower the legal standard.
The proposed legislation by Sen. Mike DeWine (R-Ohio) would have allowed the FBI to obtain surveillance warrants for non-U.S. citizens if they had a "reasonable suspicion" they were connected to terrorism -- a lower standard than the "probable cause" requirement in the statute that governs the warrants.
And yet the lemmings follow, clinging to every utterance from the pResident as though it were gospel.
I suppose that is to be expected from his 'base' (and not just 'the haves & the have mores') But what really scares me is to see the lack of retention the general public has.
During Senate debate over DeWine's amendment in July 2002, James A. Baker, the Justice Department's counsel for intelligence policy, said in a statement that the Bush administration did not support the proposal "because the proposed change raises both significant legal and practical issues."
Baker said it was "not clear cut" whether the proposal would "pass constitutional muster," and "we could potentially put at risk ongoing investigations and prosecutions" if the amendment was later struck down by the courts. He also said Justice had been using FISA aggressively and played down the notion that the probable cause standard was too high.
As damning as this is, I'm sure it will evaporate quickly into the ether if, in fact, it is ever mentioned beond this article.