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You can read what a Clinton Administration Assistant Attorney General wrote on the same subject...
Larry J — (archived)

here.

If you're automatically going to discount the Justice Department paper because it's was written by a Bush appointee, then it stands to reason you should accept the word of a Clinton appointee to the same position. After all, what does he have to gain?

President had legal authority to OK taps

By John Schmidt
Published December 21, 2005

President Bush's post- Sept. 11, 2001, authorization to the National Security Agency to carry out electronic surveillance into private phone calls and e-mails is consistent with court decisions and with the positions of the Justice Department under prior presidents.

Go ahead and discount him, too. After all, what could Assistant Attorney Generals from two administrations possibly know about the relevant law in this matter compared to the legal eagles at the New York Times and the Daily Kos?

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