John Hinderaker thoroughly shreds the latest NYT defense of their leaks:
The problem is, you can’t base a technical legal argument on what you think the law ought to be. You can only base a technical legal argument on what the law actually is. And the current state of the law, as uniformly articulated by the federal courts, is that the NSA’s international surveillance program is a legal implementation of the President’s constitutional powers. So, technically speaking, the Times is simply wrong. Which leaves me wondering what the hyperventilating is all about.
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John Hinderaker thoroughly shreds the latest NYT defense of their leaks by itemizing the case law. Closing paragraph:
The problem is, you can’t base a technical legal argument on what you think the law ought to be. You can only base a technical legal argument on what the law actually is. And the current state of the law, as uniformly articulated by the federal courts, is that the NSA’s international surveillance program is a legal implementation of the President’s constitutional powers. So, technically speaking, the Times is simply wrong. Which leaves me wondering what the hyperventilating is all about.
RTWT.
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