“Smells like BS — under present law there is no requirement for a warrant or probable cause or anything of the sort to wiretap Iraqis. I think someone’s confused here.”
My understanding is that they can get a warrant after the fact if they need to act immediately. If somebody thought they needed a warrant then they didn’t understand the law. FISA has always allowed for this.
That is the procedure for for “after the fact”, this is why it is so dangerous and why some Freepers are dead wrong about this. And Yes, if Hillary or Obama became president I would think the same way. Heck, I would even be ok if McCann was president.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/50/1802(a)(1)(A).html