National Security Agency’s program of eavesdropping without warrants, a degree of secrecy that the report concluded had hurt the effectiveness of the counterterrorism surveillance effort

The NYT has no fucking shame. Powerline nails their asses.

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They have said the program was started by the counterterrorism center at the C.I.A. shortly after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, but never became fully operational, involving planning and some training that took place off and on from 2001 until this year.

So there is a legal requirement to inform Congress about a program that isn’t operational?

Bite. Me.