Well, not everything President Obama and the 112th Congress managed to achieve is so terrible. With scarcely any notice, much less controversy, they did at least preserve one of the country's most important post-9/11 antiterror tools.One wonders just what their basis could be for the claim that warrantless wiretapping has been "one of the country's most important post-9/11 anti terror tools." After all, a comprehensive audit by the intelligence community's own Inspectors General found exactly the opposite: That the program launched by President Bush was of no greater value than other intelligence tools; that it generated an enormous number of false leads that wasted time and resources; and that, indeed, it was difficult for intelligence officials to point to a single clear cut case where the program made a crucial contribution to a counterterror success. Much about that program remains secret, of course, but the Journal's assertion here is contradicted by the public evidence.
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