Congress passes a law governing communications surveillance and then holds a hearing to ask the spooks what the law says - is that what's going on here?
On Tuesday, Sen. Russ Feingold pressed McConnell on whether recent updates to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act authorized "bulk collection" on calls from abroad into America.
"It would be authorized, if it were physically possible to do so," McConnell said. "But the purpose of the authorization is for foreign intelligence."
Feingold pressed, "So there is no language actually prohibiting this?"
Sure sounds like it to me.
I don't mean to screw up the system here but maybe if they read the laws before they passed them it would help.
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