Dear Senator Feinstein: What part of Operation Spy On *Everyone* did you not understand?

[dickthegrouch]

61. You have to read very carefully between the lines on these things

My take is that she's outraged that the CIA conducted a search about Americans on US soil against its charter. Maybe some spoliation of evidence, but that's *IT*.

Please don't confuse NSA spying on everyone with CIA doing something completely different.

I listened to General Hayden recently talking about the NSA mess and he's quite happily convinced himself that the NSA is filling a gap in the intelligence gathering apparatus and sees no problem whatsoever with sharing information with the "appropriate law enforcement entities" (FBI, CIA, Local LEO) when they discover something. That's when so-called "parallel construction" of probable cause and evidence chains start. I was VERY impressed that "The Good Wife (CBS, Sunday) took up this hot button.

I think Hayden is entirely wrong. The 4th amendment has not yet been formally repealed. IMHO anyone who contravenes it has committed an egregious offense. If the government can't be bothered to get 350,0000,000 search warrants, it can't collect 350,000,000 people's information. If I were defense lawyer, I would try to call all probable-cause hearings and findings into question.