Coleen Rowley: FISA Not to Blame for Moussaoui Mess
"Republican commentators such as William Kristol and Rush Limbaugh claim FISA procedures, and the legal impediments they impose, prevented FBI agents from acting. Consequently, they maintain President Bush is justified in abrogating FISA law to order the NSA to eavesdrop on Americans.
As legal counsel to the Minneapolis FBI Division and witness to the entire Moussaoui case, I can tell you that these assertions are not just factually wrong, they miss the real problems that existed within our intelligence gathering superstructure. I wrote a 113 page memo and testified before Congress on these very failures. Yet,some individuals continue to misapply and misrepresent what I said."
Rowley goes on to discuss myths associated with the Moussaoui case. Check it out at the link above.
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