Wednesday, January 18, 2006

AP Fact Checks McClellan/Gonzales Lie

An AP report about the White House criticisms of Gore's speech note their charges are incorrect-
...McClellan said the Clinton-Gore administration had engaged in warrantless physical searches, and he cited an FBI search of the home of CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames without permission from a judge. He said Clinton's deputy attorney general, Jamie Gorelick, had testified before Congress that the president had the inherent authority to engage in physical searches without warrants.

"I think his hypocrisy knows no bounds," McClellan said of Gore.

But at the time of the Ames search in 1993 and when Gorelick testified a year later, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act required warrants for electronic surveillance for intelligence purposes, but did not cover physical searches. The law was changed to cover physical searches in 1995 under legislation that Clinton supported and signed...

(bold added by moi)

You mean you can update the laws when situations require rather than secretly violating them? Interesting!

And again, you can read Gore's response to their attacks- here.

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