Julian Bond: “I dispute his statement that there were 6 years of unlawful activity of the President. He said no court will be able to…”

“I dispute his statement that there were 6 years of unlawful activity of the President. He said no court will be able to review the illegality; no independent officials have reviewed it. First, it is my understanding, although I was not one of them, that the big eight at the time--that is, the Republican and Democratic leaders of the House and the Senate and the leaders of their Intelligence Committees--were briefed on this program before it started. I don't know the substance of the briefing. I would imagine that they told them the problems in the existing old FISA law would make it difficult to implement that law, given the new technology which, in fact, was the case.”