On the January 5 broadcast of Christian Broadcasting Network's (CBN) The 700 Club, host Pat Robertson falsely claimed that Jamie Gorelick, who served as deputy attorney general during the Clinton administration, "went before Congress and said the president has absolute authority to conduct wiretaps in war against enemy agents if they're in this country. It's perfectly legal." Robertson was defending President Bush's authorization of warrantless domestic electronic surveillance by the National Security Agency (NSA) -- an apparent violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) of 1978.
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