How Democrats are Hamstringing Terrorist Monitoring

You can't connect the dots with one hand tied behind your back!

The Wall Street Journal has this excellent article describing how we are dropping the ball in monitoring overseas terrorist communications because of a technicality in the law which Democrats refuse to fix.

Even calls or email between suspects both of whom are outside the United States are often routed through the much more efficient communications infrastructure in the U.S. So monitoring those calls without a warrant was called "domestic spying" by Democrats.

President Bush agreed to terminate warrantless monitoring of these calls and it's now estimated that we're missing up to two thirds of communications which we could and should be monitoring.

Meanwhile, Democrats in Congress seem more interested in investigating the President's past monitoring of overseas terror suspects than they do about fixing the outdated FISA law which regulates suspect monitoring.

One exception is House Intelligence Chairman Silvestre Reyes (readers may recall Reyes didn't know the difference between a Sunni and a Shia or have much of a clue who Hezbollah was). Reyes has encouraged President Bush to "devote all the resources necessary to ensure that we are conducting maximum surveillance of the terrorist target abroad."

As the Journal article points out Reye's "should send his next letter to Senate Democrats." The minute President Bush began monitoring these overseas calls without full Congressional legislative approval Democrats would be starting impeachment proceedings.

Meanwhile, we're fighting to keep America safe with one hand tied behind our backs!