J.D. Henderson tears apart the Justice Department justification for NSA warrantless wiretaps, saying in part:

The administration also, bizarrely, cites the wiretapping of US telegraph lines by a confederate general during the civil war in support of its contention that wiretapping in time of war does not require a warrant. This is astonishing. The actions of a man who was a self-declared enemy of the United States, who took up arms against the Constitution of the United States and was responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of US Army soldiers, is being cited in order to show that the president is not violating the Constitution?

There are a couple of pages that include debunking of the stretches of FISA, AUMF, and foreign intelligence worth reading.

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