FISA an out-of-date statute? More WaPo dishonest journalism

not from what i understand*†, and, besides, bushco hasn't been observing it anyway, so what's mcconnell angling for...? retroactive legality...?

Citing a "period of heightened threat" to the U.S. homeland, Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell asked Congress to "act immediately" to make changes in current law to permit the interception of messages between terrorist targets overseas, which he said now requires burdensome court orders.
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Stepping up the pressure on lawmakers after the recently released terrorist threat assessment, McConnell said that "clarifications are urgently needed" in the law to enable the use of "our capabilities to collect foreign intelligence about foreign targets overseas without requirements imposed by an out-of-date FISA statute."

liar, liar, pants on fire...

* FISA has been updated many, many times. FISA may have been passed nearly three decades ago, but it's been amended repeatedly to adapt to evolving threats and circumstances.

and...

† In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the Bush administration demanded a whole slew of changes to FISA which expanded the President's eavesdropping powers and which the administration claimed were necessary in order to bring FISA into the 21st Century by allowing surveillance of modern communication methods. Congress, needless to say, complied in full, and in October of 2001 ... it enacted, and the President signed, sweeping "modernizing" changes to FISA.

here's one of the major print media outlets in the country, reporting on an proposed, additional, sweeping encroachment on privacy and civil liberties, quoting the nsa director in an outright lie, making no mention of previous fisa updates, and expecting us to swallow it, hook, line and sinker... why, i ask you, do we put up with this shit...?

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