Clinton's Take on Wiretapping

Former President Clinton has an interesting take on wiretapping during his administration:

"To the best of my knowledge, all of the wiretaps we did were conducted in accord with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. "

You know, the last cases on this that were relevant were probably Lincoln's suspension or the writ of habeas corpus and two cases around the Civil War called Ex-parte Yeager and Ex-parte McArdle..."

That's right - the man who was found to have hundreds of FBI files on his political opponents and whose national security advisor was caught stealing classified documents thinks that wiretapping terrorist suspects is similar to suspending habeas corpus. To his credit, he did say that he hadn't studied the matter enough to know whether what Bush did was illegal. (Though a President should have researched it...especially when Al Qaeda already attacked us five times.)