‘Fox & Friends’ suddenly against wiretapping they supported under Bush

[AgingAmerican]

Steve Doocy, suddenly a legal expert of PATRIOT Act violations, said that this kind of data seizure is a violation of the Act’s 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 administration’s 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, “Let’s call it the terrorist surveillance program. That would be a lot easier.”

Doocy concurred, “And more accurate.”

“Yeah, more accurate too,” Kilmeade said. “If you’re for the NSA wiretapping without going to the FISA court, I guess warrantless, then most likely you’re Republican. If you are against it, you most likely are a Democrat.”

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FOX news tabloid is at it again.

[RainDog]

1. this isn't a partisan issue

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]

2. The hypocracy is

n/t

[tridim]

5. And it isn't "Wiretapping" either. nt

[Cali_Democrat]

3. Also, under Bush it was warrantless wiretapping

In the Verizon case, there was no wiretapping and it wasn't warrantless. They obtained a FISA court order.

[AgingAmerican]

6. Yep

Still, the patriot act sucks.

[BlueCheese]

4. Sadly, many Democrats suddenly for surveillance they opposed under Bush.