More on the NSA story

Defensetech has an article up with a few quotes from former spooks and sigint people on the NSA spying program. (Via Josh Marshall)

The LaTimes is Reporting that the NYTimes sat on the story through the 2004 election. "The New York Times first debated publishing a story about secret eavesdropping on Americans as early as last fall, before the 2004 presidential election."

Antiwar has a post on their blog quoting Bush from April 20, 2004 promoting the PATRIOT act: (source: presidential speech)

Secondly, there are such things as roving wiretaps. Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires -- a wiretap requires a court order. Nothing has changed, by the way. When we're talking about chasing down terrorists, we're talking about getting a court order before we do so.

And heads up later, early reports are that the Press briefing was a doozy. I'll post it when I see it.

And, Sens. Reid, Rockefeller, and Leahy wrote a pretty strong letter to the president asking for information and details. I wouldn't hold my breath on this, but it's pretty sweeping.

An AEI guy and an ex-Reagan deputy atty general are talking about impeachment, and AMblog has a significant part of the FISA statute up.

Hagel and Snowe, the kind of Republican Senators I wish I had, have joined Levin, Feinstein, and Wyden "calling for a joint investigation by the Senate Intelligence and Judiciary Committees into whether the government eavesdropped "without appropriate legal authority."

My Senator Krazy Khristian Kornyn is, of course, defending this in his usual "love Bush or die" style. “None of your civil liberties matter much after you’re dead,” said Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas.)

A little on the old Church Committe hearings here and here.

As new things break, I'll just update on this post throughout the day.