In its effort to counter the fallout from the leaks of the NSA’s secret spying on people, the administration has handed out a set of talking points to its friends in the media and in Congress so that they don’t have to go through the chore of trying to figure out for themselves why they are comfortable with an authoritarian government.
Mike Masnick puts the talking points under a microscope.
1) if it’s authorized, why is it not constituational
2) if it’s constuitutional, why hasn’t it been reviewed and found to be?
Wow. That reasoning is so bad it’s no wonder they wanted someone else to play their stalking horse with it. They could come in afterward, mention any sort of bland internal review and end the day looking like the adults in the room.
And the hole keeps getting deeper.