Got Room for One More?

BOB SCHIEFFER: About out of time here but let me just ask you--in your view, was the FISA court rubberstamping whatever the government wanted to do?  

GENERAL MICHAEL HAYDEN: No. No, not at all. And I know people point to the number of warrants we request and the number of warrants we get saying it's rubberstamp. Actually, Bob, I would turn that on its head. That tells me we weren't pressing the court hard enough. We weren't giving them any tough decisions.

Boy, that's some quality bullshit right there. The spooks get every warrant they ask for because every case they bring before the FISA court is so obvious and easy that the FISA Court can't help but go along. This is enough to make me wonder if there's room enough in the Ecuadorian embassy for all of us.

  Charlie Pierce