FISA "Reform": Stop the Rush to Amend

Published: August 1, 2007, 6:10 pm

Tags: fisa, warrantless wiretapping, alberto gonzales

Sen. Rockefeller, chair of the Senate intelligence committee, has outlined what he would accept as a proposal to remedy what the administration calls an urgently needed fix to FISA. Not having seen what Director of National Intelligence McConnell presented to Rockefeller and his colleagues, it's impossible from the outside to determine if there is any kind of real threat looming out there that requires this fix, or if the administration is just trying to draw attention away from the increasingly sticky problem of Alberto Gonzales. Speaking of whom, that's who the administration wants to oversee the expanded program. "When pigs fly," has been the utterly responsible approach of the Senate Dems. Senator Rockefeller: "The Administration has offered a proposal that would instead permanently grant the Attorney General excessive surveillance powers by giving him sole authority to direct surveillance while completely removing the FISA Court from the process. That is simply

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