Sean Hannity Lies about FISA and Bush Wire Taps of American Citizens. Anyone surprised?

Crooks and Liars has this: Sean Hannity Lies about FISA. Anyone surprised?

Emailer William reported: Yesterday at approximity 3:25 Central, one of Sean Hannity's listeners asked him if the Democrats would make up something to get Bush impeached. After some almost true statements about Conyer's resolutions, Hannity made a totally false mischaracterization of the FISA regulations.

Hannity out-right lies on the air about the process of getting a FISA warrant. He must be very nervous about what will be revealed after we actually find out who is being monitored. I'm surprised they brought OBL into the talking point discussion at all, but I guess when in doubt-any reference to 9/11 is a good thing in Hannity's mind.

Hannity: If Osama Bin Laden calls the United States, they're saying we need to go spend 76 hours and get a court order before we can record that phone conversation-that's how asinine their logic is.

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Hannity knows damn well that under FISA laws the Bush Administration could tap a phone bin Laden is calling immediately and only needs to notify the FISA courts within 72 hours afterwards. Under the law he eventually needs to notify the courts which will keep the information classified. The FISA courts have granted tens of thousands of search warrants for wire taps over the past 30 years, and almost never turns down the government’s request if there is the remotest chance that the information could help National Security. They've only denied four requests in 30 years. The fact that Bush wanted to tap American citizens’ phones without any documentation of whose phones he was tapping suggests that he knew that the extremely lenient FISA courts would object to tapping those Americans’ phones. Hannity knows this, and he has the balls to lie to his viewers about this deliberately misleading them into thinking that a wire tap of bin Laden would be delayed by even a minute under FISA laws let alone the ridiculous 76 hours he lied about. And in the same breath Hannity calls Democrats raising the issue of impeachment for Bush’s admitted breaking of the law, liars. This is what FOX News Channel is all about: ALL LIES ALL THE TIME 24x7.

Those Americans not misled by right-wing lies know that the government can record a call right away and wait up until 72 hours until they get the warrant, but I've heard many right-wingnuts lie about the law before, although they usually get the 72 hours part right. They just lie about the after part like Pat Buchanan did in the link above. The Lapdog Corporate Mainstream Media just smiles and lets the lies roll merrily on as dimwitted Katie Couric did in that link.

WHY ARE THESE LYING PIECES OF SHIT LIKE HANNITY AND BUCHANAN ALLOWED ON THE AIR TO FILL AMERICANS’ MINDS WITH FALSE INFORMATION DISGUISED AS NEWS? WHEN WILL THE AMERICAN PEOPLE REALIZE THAT THEY HAVE BEEN DUPED BY LYING SCUM LIKE THESE ASSHOLES? WHEN WILL THE FEW REPUTABLE JOURNALISTS LEFT IN AMERICA START CALLING THESE LIARS ON CLAIMS THAT ARE SO CLEARLY FALSE?

How will we be able to face our children and grandchildren when they ask how stupid we could have been to let obvious lies go unchecked and unchallenged? Good question. How do the Germans who allowed the lies of Hitler’s Nazism to go unchallenged face their children and grandchildren? The fact is they are humiliated by their past and so will we be.