Obama is/was wrong on FISA and the Patriot Act reform

HUGH HEWITT: A second Hillary question comes out of a decision by district court today striking down part of the reform of the Patriot Act, a reform that both Senator Clinton and Senator Obama voted against this summer. It comes one day, the decision does, after terrorists in Germany, two days after terrorist arrests in Denmark. Are they clueless, Governor Romney, as to the threat that we face when they take these extreme positions on FISA Patriot Act reform?

 

MITT ROMNEY: Yes, they are. There are reports that some terrorists actually route their calls through the United States, so someone from Pakistan routes a call through the U.S. to someone in Afghanistan, and by virtue of it going through the U.S., they know that we can’t listen in. This is absurd, and that’s why Democrats as well as Republicans came together to amend our laws so that we are able to listen into these kinds of calls. And Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama said no. There’s no question but that if America is going to be kept safe, it’s going to be done through intelligence. And we saw that in Great Britain with the recent attempt on airlines coming here. We saw it in Germany. In both cases, what stopped the attacks was effective intelligence. We’re not going to be able to stop every attack by having the guys at the airport looking in your bags. These guys are pretty smart guys, and intelligence is the key. And you’ve got to give our intelligence community and our law enforcement community the tools they need to listen in to the bad guys, to interrogate the bad guys. People have to recognize we’re talking about lives, and we’re talking about the lives of many of our citizens, and the livelihoods of many, many more.