Folklore and FISA

Here's the administration's folklore:

"T]he FISA law was written in 1978. We’re having this discussion in 2006. It’s a different world. And FISA is still an important tool. It’s an important tool. And we still use that tool. But also — and we — look — I said, look, is it possible to conduct this program under the old law? And people said, it doesn’t work in order to be able to do the job we expect us to do."

But as the website "Think Progress" suggests:

"Bush gives the impression that he’d very much like to have the program work within the confines of the law but it’s just too old to accommodate it. That isn’t true."

Jump to the article here.

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/07/the-old-law-myth/