john conyers (d-mi) may be the most powerful dem on the house judiciary committee, but that cuts no ice with a chairman who always goes the gop way, so conyers often has to hold unofficial hearings on vital issues.
the one on domestic spying the other day was exceptional, tho. as usual, no gop congress members showed, but—unlike similar events i've seen before—a couple witnesses came who almost always side with gops: bruce fein and jonathan turley.
the main issue, as you must know, is why does da bugger prez insist on allowing electronic spying without a judge's order even tho the law lets him wait before going to the secret court to ask for a warrant (which almost never gets refused) up to 3 days after the NSA initiates the tap?
fein slipped in a pithy summary near the end, which i paraphrase: if he had the evidence [that the tapped calls involved al qaeda members or supporters] why didn't he just go to the FISA court and get the rubber stamp?
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