Over the past week, we’ve been reporting that U.S. government sources have disputed Mike McConnell’s account to Congress that FISA Court rulings unreasonably delayed surveillance on Iraqi insurgents who kidnapped U.S. troops this spring. The sources blamed cumbersome bureaucratic hurdles for the delay, not the court, and questioned why obtaining an emergency surveillance order — good for 72 hours before approval by a judge — should have taken so long to acquire.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=179757