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In reply to the discussion: Ed Snowden: Leakers “should be shot in the balls,” and "cut this Social Security bullshit" [View all]leftynyc
(26,060 posts)and I'm going to use a source that I know you trust to prove it. Warrants WERE NOT being issued for the bush administration until the outcry:
http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2005/12/purposely-misquoting-fisa-to-defend.html
snip:
But that does not stop Al Maviva from arguing that the Administration was allowed to engage in warrantless eavesdropping on terrorist groups pursuant to this section. To argue this, he purports to quote the authorization language of § 1802, but omits from his quotation the part of the statute which entirely negates his argument -- namely, the part which limits this authorization to subsections (1)-(3), but excludes subsection (4).
Be very careful in saying someone else doesn't understand something. It makes you look very foolish.