Former CIA agent Larry Johnson

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on NSA wiretapping:

If you are generating leads from persons being held in secret prisons or if the info is obtained thru torture, then it makes it difficult to make a truthful declaration before a judge. Why not lie to the FISA court? That’s called perjury. I suspect this explains the real motive for the refusal of the Bush Administration to go the FISA route.

Comments

  1. Matthew Tobey says:
    January 31, 2006 at 7:44 am

    In my opinion, I think my gut tells me that former CIA agent Larry Johnson is very leftist. I believe I have faith in that.

  2. matt says:
    January 31, 2006 at 7:51 am

    He’s a very leftist Republican.

  3. Nick in Beantown says:
    January 31, 2006 at 7:52 am

    First, they may be allowing unfettered data mining on domestic targets without probable cause. An old fashioned “fishing” trip. You cast out a net and pull it in, picking over the contents, and hoping you snared the oyster with the big pearl. This nonsense works in a Tom Clancy novel but not in the real world. Even with the most robust computer power you have no simple way to find “actionable intelligence”.

    Very true. And this is the scenario that most folks have in-mind when they’re talking about this case. Its proverbial packrat that probably has everything but can’t find shit.