Repeat after me: It's the paper trail, Stupid!

[displacedtexan]

The only reason to circumvent the FISA warrant process (Remember, they can spy first and get a warrant later) is the lack of a paper trail.

Why would BushCo possibly want to avoid a paper trail?

That's the question everyone should be asking.

What are they hiding?

[EFerrari]

1. At this point, shouldn't the question be,

"What aren't they hiding"?

They've out Nixoned Nixon.

[displacedtexan]

3. Exactly!

Someone just posted that they're probably hiding the fact that they used their secret spying guys during the elections.

[boston bean]

2. I believe the reason is they are tracking and tracing all

international calls coming into and out of America.

This is their detection.

It is unconstitutional and very scary. When I hear terrorist ties, I wonder if they track all calls coming and going into countries that have an FBI presence in the new terrorist plan they got.

[displacedtexan]

4. Without a paper trail, how do we know it's foreign calls?

Does anyone really trust BushCo enough to believe they'd limit their spying to foreign calls?

[yy4me]

5. My thoughts exactly.

Who's to prove any different? They could have spied on candidates during the election...might have made a difference if they did not know everything that was being done by Kerry and others.

[NanceGreggs]

6. Why would BushCo possibly want to avoid a paper trail?

For the same reason they wanted to avoid a paper-trail emanating from voting machines. This entire Administration is smoke & mirrors ...