As everyone knows, I am an aficionado of well executed spin and half truths.
I saw a masterful example this morning on LP at the following link:
http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=129152
Note what the the article says:
Sometime in the early 1970s Carter spied on two Vietnamese - while they were overseas if my memory serves me correctly.
In 1977, the two men challenged the spying and Carter's actions were upheld for the specific case.
One year later, in 1978, Congress passed FISA to place standards and procedures on this sort of thing.
Bush ignored these standards and procedures.
The maxim that statute overrules precedent is ignored by the authors of the article. Completely ignored.
The article is written in a tortured, turgid style that leaves the casual reader with the impression that somewhere there has been a groundbreaking case that exonorates Bush.
There hasn't been.
Coldly calculated and deliberate propaganda at its finest.