For what it's worth, I wouldn't get too excited about today's New York
Times story suggesting that the NSA's domestic spying program
accomplished nothing except sending FBI agents on hundreds of wild
goose chases. Aside from the fact that the whole thing smells pretty
strongly of a bureaucratic turf war, the effectiveness of the program
just isn't a big issue. Maybe it worked, maybe it didn't. Not every
program pans out.
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What's im****tant is that the intercepts were done without a warrant
even though the law expressly requires a warrant. That's the issue.
—Kevin Drum
