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Originally Posted by tw

You do tend to confuse legalized wiretapping as approved by Congress with ... They even had a secret court to approve wiretaps. But even that was too much restriction for extremists. The secret court might not approve some wire taps - even though they approved all but maybe three. So extremists demanded illegal monitoring. And called that good...

I do agree with you that there is a stark difference between authorizing wiretaps outside of FISA, which occurred in the last administration as opposed to within the limits of FISA, which is now the practice (to the best of our knowledge).

Where Obama failed was his flip-flop on telecomm immunity during the heat of the campaign in 08 when he voted for theh FISA amendments that included the immunity.

Excluding the illegal actions of the past, there is not a hell of a lot of difference between the two national security policies.