Yet another example of why Michelle Malkin and her crowd should love, not hate, the New York Times (and Collin Powell for that matter...):
Powell OK with Bush's spying tactics
The New York Times, December 26, 2005
WASHINGTON - Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday that it would not have been ''that hard'' for President Bush to have obtained warrants for eavesdropping on domestic telephone and Internet activity, but that he saw ''nothing wrong'' with the decision not to do so.
''My own judgment is that it didn't seem to me, anyway, that it would have been that hard to go get the warrants,'' Powell said. ''And even in the case of an emergency, you go and do it. The law provides for that.''
But Powell added that ''for reasons that the president has discussed and the attorney general has spoken to, they chose not to do it that way.'' ''I see absolutely nothing wrong with the president authorizing these kinds of actions,'' he said.
Asked if such eavesdropping should continue, Powell said, ''Yes, of course it should continue.''
Powell said he had not been told about the eavesdropping activity when he served as secretary of state.
He spoke on the ABC News program ''This Week'' about the disclosure, first reported in The New York Times, that Bush had authorized the National Security Agency to intercept communications by Americans without approval from a special foreign intelligence court.
Though Powell stopped short of criticizing Bush, his suggestion that there was ''another way to handle it'' was another example of his parting company on a critical issue with the president he served for four years. ...
Huh??? Does the Times headline writer even interact with the reporter or editor... at all...? Sheesh...
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