Toensing laughs at idea of investigating smirk spying on us

Clinton-Hater Toensing Laughs - Literally - at Idea of Investigating Bush’s Allegedly Illegal Spying on U.S. Citizens

http://www.pensitoreview.com/2005/12/20/clinton-hater-toensing-laughs-at-investigating-bush/


New lows in hackery: During the 1990’s, Victoria Toensing and her husband, Joe diGenova, made over 300 appearances on cable television in the service of the Republican agenda - often pimping for their friend Ken Starr and his $35 million investigation into President Clinton’s sex life.

In those days, to hear Toensing and diGenova tell it, there was no infraction on the part of the Clintons that was too small to warrant a thorough proctological examination.

Crooks & Liars has the video here

So I was flabbergasted to hear Toensing this morning on C-Span’s Washington Journal laughing - literally - at the idea that a special prosecutor should be assigned to investigate whether President Bush broke the law when he ordered the National Security Agency (NSA) to spy on American citizens.

Toensing was debating James Bamford, an investigative reporter who wrote a book about the NSA titled, “The Puzzle Palace.” At the center of their debate is the 1978 law the president apparently broke - the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) - which clearly states that the government must get special permission to spy on U.S. citizens from a FISA court.

BAMFORD: This is a president who has constantly since 2001, bypassing law. This isn’t a one-time deal. And, again, he has a lot of options for going to the court and doing this. He didn’t go to the court and there is a legal provision in that statute that says “if you don’t go to the court, it’s five years in jail and a ten thousand dollar fine.” So the solution here is to get a special prosecutor to take a look at whether the law…

TOENSING: (Off camera) Ha!

BAMFORD: …Was violated. And I don’t know what’s funny about that. You know, we had the Republicans go to impeachment over a minor sexual discretion by a president. And here’s a president violating a law that says if you manage to violate it.

All Toensing could say in response was to sputter about how members of Congress had been briefed on the domestic spying so they should be investigated too.
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wonder who paid her to go on Wash. Journal?