Sen. Rockefeller’s Memo To Cheney Preceded TIA Defunding By One Day

ah…the power of the blogosphere…we can do the work that the journalists in the MSM don’t do and come up with a timeline that cuts through the White House’s obfuscations:

The Next Hurrah:

Commenter joejoejoe sent me a superb timeline to show the chronology of Congress’ building opposition to the Total Information Awareness program as it relates to the NSA’s domestic wiretap program[..]

I’d like to pull out just a few salient dates and add four (in bold italics) to what joejoejoe did. I think the time line lends support for the argument that one of the problems–a big problem–with the domestic wiretap program is that it violated clear instructions from Congress. Crooks & Liars