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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums‘Fox & Friends’ suddenly against wiretapping they supported under Bush
Steve Doocy, suddenly a legal expert of PATRIOT Act violations, said that this kind of data seizure is a violation of the Acts section 215, which said that you could go after people based on individual investigations, but forbids data collection from average citizens. He went on to call it a gigantic overreach on the Obama administrations part.
However, in 2006, Doocy and other Fox hosts were saying the exact opposite about NSA wiretaps.
Media Matters reported that in the wake of revelations that the NSA might be conducting wholesale data-mining on U.S. citizens, the hosts of Fox and Friends openly nixed the term warrantless wiretapping in favor of calling the spying the terrorist surveillance program and went out of their way to justify the practice.
On January 25, 2006, Kilmeade said, Lets call it the terrorist surveillance program. That would be a lot easier.
Doocy concurred, And more accurate.
Yeah, more accurate too, Kilmeade said. If youre for the NSA wiretapping without going to the FISA court, I guess warrantless, then most likely youre Republican. If you are against it, you most likely are a Democrat.
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FOX news tabloid is at it again.
RainDog
(28,784 posts)both sides of the aisle have overstepped boundaries - and this is common in threat situations (just look at the detention of Japanese families during WWII.)
rather than play this as politics, media should look at whether or not such actions are constitutional.
AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)n/t
tridim
(45,358 posts)Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)In the Verizon case, there was no wiretapping and it wasn't warrantless. They obtained a FISA court order.
AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)Still, the patriot act sucks.