Monday, January 30, 2006
Politicizing the Patriot Act
Sadly, once politics are involved, everything gets embellished or distorted. I suspect the Patriot Act is one of those cases...
In the Wall Street Opinion Journal:
"Furthermore, it was the impenetrable FISA guidelines and fear of provoking the FISA court's wrath if they were transgressed that discouraged risk-averse FBI supervisors from applying for a FISA search warrant in the Zacarias Moussaoui case. The search, finally conducted on the afternoon of 9/11, produced names and phone numbers of people in the thick of the 9/11 plot, so many fertile clues that investigators believe that at least one airplane, if not all four, could have been saved."
