The AP is reporting they have been told that it took 9 hours to set up a tap on those insurgents they think kidnapped 3 of our Soldiers last Spring. A Unnamed source. It's a good spin as they go, but watch how many people buy this one. If you think the Patraeous Report kept us in Iraq, then you will see this save the Telcos and the Warrantless Wiretaps.Call me cynical.
Last spring, with insurgents apparently holding three American soldiers in Iraq, it took the U.S. government more than nine hours to begin emergency surveillance of some of the kidnappers' electronic communications.
The bulk of that time was spent on internal legal deliberations by Bush administration lawyers and intelligence officials,
Can you feel it coming ? Bendover anyone who thought we might of stopped the madness, here it comes.
Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas seems to have seen through this ruse, but of course the admin. is arguing different. If Reyes does stop this, I will owe him a apology for thinking he didn't deserve to Chair the Intel. Comm., but that's another story.
The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, last week blamed the delay on unnecessary bureaucracy within the Justice Department. Justice Department and U.S. intelligence officials dispute that, and say the NSA decision alone was not legally sufficient to authorize an emergency request.
What Reyes is saying is they had the authority to do what they needed to, they just drug their feet, among other things. From here on out we hear a lot of stuff geared to help the White House in it's fight for the Wiretaps. The DOJ get involved, and spins like mad, until oops! They tell us that even though they took over 2 hrs to find and talk to Alberto Gonzales. He was in Texas talking to a meeting of US Attorneys. Anyone remember them saying that the US Atty scandal wasn't interfering with him doing his job ? Oop.
Another two hours passed when Justice Department officials had trouble tracking down Alberto Gonzales, then the attorney general. He was speaking at a conference of U.S. attorneys in Texas.http://hosted.ap.org/...
You can read the details and timelines they set out as the bait. It's probably just believable enough for make Fox News and their viewers happy to sign over their Civil Rights, not that it would take much for that to happen.
Update: Almost 7:00 am , now and I can't find this in any newspaper yet. Would't it be nice if they refused to run this story? A Pipedream I know, someone will run with it besides the AP and CNN.