Republicans pushed 'bogus' terror threat...

Republicans pushed 'bogus' terror threat to expand FISA, lawmaker says

Nick Juliano
Published: Wednesday September 19, 2007

Republicans and the Bush administration used a 'bogus' terror threat that raised specific fears of an attack on the Capitol to scare lawmakers into adopting a dramatic temporary expansion of the government's spy powers last month, a former top intelligence committee Democrat said Wednesday.

Congress agreed to give President Bush and the nation's intelligence agencies extra authority to spy on Americans just hours before lawmakers left for a month-long recess in August. In the legislative session's final week, news emerged of an impending plot by foreign terrorists to attack the US Capitol, and Republicans pointed to the reports as justification to expand the administration's powers...

http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Republicans_pushed_bogus_terror_threat_to_0919.html

And Congress fell for it?