Olbermann: No "I" in Team, but there is in Investigation and Impeachment

'Countdown with Keith Olbermann' for May 11

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12756626/

OLBERMANN: You know how they say there‘s no I in “team.” Well, there‘s an I in “investigation,” and an I in “impeachment.”

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The NSA program obviously political anathema. But is it even remotely legal? We‘ll ask Jonathan Turley.

Thanks for coming back, Jon.

JONATHAN TURLEY, GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: Thanks, Keith.

OLBERMANN: The simplest, broadest question here, could this program possibly be legal?

TURLEY: Frankly, I don‘t see how it can. If what was said in “USA Today” is true—and there‘s been no denial of any of the essential facts it seems to me, once again, to violate federal law. It is true that courts do not require a warrant to get the phone number of targeted individuals as part of a criminal investigation. But there is no law that allows the government to do this type of operation.

OLBERMANN: The choice that the government made not to go to FISA or the attorney general, is that in some way an acknowledgement that the NSA took a good guess at this and a good look at it and said, Well, this is probably not going to get approved by a FISA court?

TURLEY: Well, it‘s a very interesting admission, because they went to the attorney general to try to get a signoff on the domestic surveillance program. And they ran into one of the most conservative lawyers in the government, James Comey. And James Comey refused. He said, I don‘t see how this is lawful. Then they went to John Ashcroft in the hospital and even Ashcroft balked and said, I‘m not comfortable with this. So they could have had two lessons. One is, maybe we should do things lawfully. Instead, they learned, Let‘s not ask people to sign off on these things.



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