Andrew C. McCarthy is suggesting that if the Bush administration had gone to the FISA court on the wiretapping cases, Democrats would still be screaming foul. Because it's not civil rights protections they care about so much as Bush's head on a platter.
Would that FISA compliance have made it all okay? Do you really think there would have been no scandal?Posted by dan at January 5, 2006 4:13 PMOr, in this climate that it has so tirelessly labored to create, do you think the Times would simply have weaved a different scandal?
We are talking, after all, about the newspaper that is now "of record" only if you're keeping track of the hard Left's daily scripts — the trailblazer of an era in which politicizing our national security during wartime, once unthinkable, is everyday fare. We are talking about a crowd that never met a savage they wouldn't Mirandize or a library they wouldn't turn into a safe haven for plotting mass murder.