UPDATE: I had the link wrong, sorry - it's right now.
I know, another icon of truth shot down. How will you make it to Christmas?
Matt Drudge was claiming yesterday that Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter signed executive orders permitting the spying without search warrants on American citizens!
Breaking News! Flashing lights! Stop the presses!
Of course, it isn't true. But hey, it does make a good story.
The indispensable ThinkProgress again quite easily goes to the original documents and proves that Drudge is again lying.
Just imagine if the liberal blogs consistently ran with shit they just made up?
This is another document that you need to copy and paste into an email, then mail it around the Internet to your friends as more proof that Bush is a criminal.
Here's a bit of ThinkProgress brilliantly simple analysis:
The top of the Drudge Report claims "?CLINTON EXECUTIVE ORDER: SECRET SEARCH ON AMERICANS WITHOUT COURT ORDER." It'?s not true. Here's the breakdown:
What Drudge says:Clinton, February 9, 1995: "The Attorney General is authorized to approve physical searches, without a court order"What Clinton actually signed:Section 1. Pursuant to section 302(a)(1) [50 U.S.C. 1822(a)] of the [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance] Act, the Attorney General is authorized to approve physical searches, without a court order, to acquire foreign intelligence information for periods of up to one year, if the Attorney General makes the certifications required by that section.That section requires the Attorney General to certify is the search will not involve "the premises, information, material, or property of a United States person."? That means U.S. citizens or anyone inside of the United States.
