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Illegal spying hearings begin at 9:30AM Eastern, tomorrow (Monday)



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Glenn Greenwald will be doing the lion's share of the coverage, as he's a lawyer and an expert on these issues. And for you early birds, Glenn will be on C-SPAN's Washington Journal tomorrow morning from 7:45-8:30 a.m EST debating the NSA scandal with University of Virginia Professor Robert Turner.

More from Glenn:

This clip of George Bush should be talked about all week -- why, if the Administration had all the legal authority in the world to eavesdrop without warrants and outside of FISA did it repeatedly make false statements to the public and to the Congress assuring us all that it was eavesdropping only in accordance with FISA? Parties make false statements in order to conceal their behavior only when their behavior is improper and wrong, not when it is justified and legal. And deliberately false statements of that sort from our government officials happen to be unacceptable and wrong, and really constitute a scandal unto itself.
Glenn makes an excellent point. If you're obeying the law, but the info you're being asked about is top secret, then you say "it's top secret" or you can even say "all of our work is within the law." You don't say "oh no, we'd never spy on anyone without a court order." Yet that is what the president said. He lied. And generally, the only reason you outright lie is when you're breaking the law and you know it.


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