Bobby Ray Inman, former director for the National Security Agency has torn a strip off the Bush administration. Inman was speaking out against the warrantless domestic wiretaps. From Wired,
Inman didn’t contest the Bush administration’s claim that the FISA courts can’t keep up with the NSA’s new breed of surveillance. “My problem is not going to Congress to revise the statute to deal with the problems I didn’t think of in ’78,” Inman said. “We can do what the country needs and work within the law.”
Inman put the White House’s reluctance to change the surveillance regulations squarely on the shoulders of Vice President Dick Cheney. He noted that Cheney formerly served as chief of staff to President Gerald Ford, who was in power before the FISA restrictions were put in place. Cheney never really agreed with the controls, Inman asserted. “The ultimate test,” the retired admiral added, will be whether President Bush “walks away from the vice president on this.”
Love it! 😀
[tags]NSA, Wiretap, Bush, FISA[/tags]
