Friday, May 30, 2008

Sentence in Yoo Memo Discounts FISA

Sentence in Yoo Memo Discounts FISA By QuestionGirl | May 23rd, 2008 - 12:49 pm What does “exclusive” mean? The answer was at the heart of a highly sensitive memo by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel in 2001, when Bush administration officials were keen to institute warrantless domestic surveillance after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. A 1978 law appeared at first glance to be an impediment to using new procedures for such surveillance. It stated that the Foreign Intelligence