Thursday, July 16, 2009
Why John Yoo fucked the Constitution
In his own words, today in the Wall St Journal, John Yoo tries to explain why he thought the laws of our land were meaningless when the highest level of government were scared shitless.
Perhaps someday John will tell the truth and admit he is a deep cover mole for North Korea, sent to destroy the American system of laws.
Under FISA, to obtain a judicial wiretapping warrant the government is supposed to show probable cause that a specified target is a foreign agent. Unlike, say, Soviet spies working under diplomatic cover, terrorists are hard to identify. Yet they are vastly more dangerous. Monitoring their likely communications channels is the best way to track and stop them. Building evidence to prove past crimes, as in the civilian criminal system, is entirely beside the point. The best way to find an al Qaeda operative is to look at all email, text and phone traffic between Afghanistan and Pakistan and the U.S. This might involve the filtering of innocent traffic, just as roadblocks and airport screenings do.So since we didn't know anything and we could listen to everybody, we did. We didn't catch any al-Q types, but we got some great dirt on the Democrats.
Perhaps someday John will tell the truth and admit he is a deep cover mole for North Korea, sent to destroy the American system of laws.
Subscribe to Posts [Atom]
Post a Comment