Posted on 01/12/2006 10:02:51 AM PST by wm_tate
FULL TEXT OF ARTICLE. Under Clinton, the New York Times called pervasive domestic intelligence, "a necessity."
The controversy following revelations that U.S. intelligence agencies have monitored suspected terrorist related communications since 9/11 reflects a severe case of selective amnesia by the New York Times and other media opponents of President Bush. They certainly didn’t show the same outrage when a much more invasive and indiscriminate domestic surveillance program came to light during the Clinton administration in the 1990's. At that time, the Times called the surveillance “a necessity.”
“If you made a phone call today or sent an e-mail to a friend, there's a good chance what you said or wrote was captured and screened by the country's largest intelligence agency.” -Steve Kroft, CBS’ 60 Minutes
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The libs always rely on faulty memories or more like selective amnesia of past statements, positions or events.
This whole hoopla over "wiretaps" is nothing but a lib manufactured news story and "scandal".
The link is incorrect
"At that time, the Times called the surveillance “a necessity."
Clinton and the NYT considered Rush Limbaugh and the Heritage Institute the 'terrorists' that must be watched. What truly does scare me about Presidential wire taps is that Clinton used every service at his disposal to watch and collect intelligence on his political enemies in the US, and the MSM refused not only to criticize it, but wouldn't even report it honsetly. Another case of the 'watchdog' press being a Democrats lap dog.
Rush has been discussing this in the past few minutes.
You're right. I reposted in a separate thread, but here it is.
http://americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5150
The other link was for one of the resources used in the article. Sorry for the inconvenience!
A safe bet of those under the Toon's surveilance would probaly be Republicans who were assaulted by the IRS during the toon years. Bogus charges like making too much profit in their professional corporations.
This is why history will not be kind to the Clinton presidency. At best he will be judged as a mediocre president. His blunder was his belief that the greatest threat to America was a few fringe groups that may have been racist/separatist and hated certain elements of our government. If his Echelon program would have focused its attention where it should have been focused we could be that much further ahead in our fight against islamofascist terrorism.
Use the link in post #8.
Clinton's was domestic spying, Bush's has 1 end of the conversation from overseas.
Clinton&Co was also selling the info to political donors for use against political opponents.
Who was taping Gingrich again?
You mean...we have a conspiracy theory?
You're not supposed to remember this.
Not only do they adamantly oppose it now, most lamestream media don't even call it "surveillance.' They refer to it as "spying," which sounds a bit more evil.
Doesn't Sam Fisher work for Third Echelon?
Actually, there is a bit of a difference. Surveillance is more general, the way Echelon was (or is). Spying targets someone or something more specifically, with an objective in mind.
Personally I consider domestic surveillance, on balance, to be more sinister than domestic spying.
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