"We're one bomb away from getting rid of that obnoxious [FISA] court."

From: ed <ber..._at_netaxs.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 04:30:57 -0400

-Ed


http://www.philly.com/inquirer/front_page/20090711_Report__Wiretaps_risked_a_crisis.html

Former Justice lawyers Patrick Philbin and Jack Goldsmith secured access to the
(Presidential Surveillance) program and began meeting with Gonzales, then the
White House counsel, and David Addington, counsel to Vice President Dick Cheney,
to voice their concerns after Yoo left the department in 2003.

[...]

Senior White House officials disdained the legal regime imposed on the program,
according to a book by Goldsmith. He reported that Addington said in February
2004 that "we're one bomb away from getting rid of that obnoxious [FISA] court."
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