Posted on 12/16/2005 6:37:23 AM PST by End Times Sentinel
President Bush signed a secret order in 2002 authorizing the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on U.S. citizens and foreign nationals in the United States, despite previous legal prohibitions against such domestic spying, sources with knowledge of the program said last night.
The super-secretive NSA, which has generally been barred from domestic spying except in narrow circumstances involving foreign nationals, has monitored the e-mail, telephone calls and other communications of hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of people under the program, the New York Times disclosed last night.
The aim of the program was to rapidly monitor the phone calls and other communications of people in the United States believed to have contact with suspected associates of al Qaeda and other terrorist groups overseas, according to two former senior administration officials. Authorities, including a former NSA director, Gen. Michael V. Hayden, were worried that vital information could be lost in the time it took to secure a warrant from a special surveillance court, sources said.
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LOL... May I use that quote sometime?
There's some more background in this thread for you:
THIS administration? Why THIS administration in particular? What about magic lantern, echelon and carnivore (aka DCS 1000) and all their predecessors? (see my #14) Are they THIS administrations fault too?
With every post, you show your ignorance.
Seriously you people don't know what a real conservative is.
Are you one of them there "real, true conservatives?" If so, you may be right; the vast majority of us here have brains and USE them.
And we know when something is illegal or not; and this is NOT illegal.
You're an embarassment to this web site.
Thanks for that link, I get the picture, see comment #25 for what Rush had to say.
"In other words, that is a part of the Patriot Act that goes away. Does that sound familiar? You know what just get's re-erected? The Gorelick wall! The same thing that prevented us from being able to "connect the dots" prior to 9/11 goes back into effect on January 1st, because that provision's dead, the provision that permits the sharing of grand jury information that involves foreign intelligence or counter-intelligence with federal law enforcement, federal intelligence, protective immigration, national defense or national security officials. That's gone. So now anything learned by one agency can't be shared with another. Thanks to the Gorelick wall. It's back."
I can't believe my eyes.
Jack Bauer, get ready for company.
I want Harry Reid charged with a "high crime or misdemeanor" like sedition, or treason, for a start...
GRRRrrrrrrrrrr!!! dirty treacherous b*st*rd!
A.A.C.
"The Final Crusade has commenced - Harry Reid is negotiating our surrender; I am negotiating a 'business contract' for him....yeah, yeah that's the ticket, business contract!"
It's merely another sign of utter desperation. What's funny is that some on this forum are gullible enough to buy into the garbage.
And even sadder is that by all accounts, the surveillance was 100% justified, and yet even though they could have made it legal by getting a warrant, which fisa can do in minutes, or even retroactively, they chose to flaunt the law and the 4th amendment.
Asking Gonzales his opinion does not make it legal or constitutional.
The only reason the left is so epileptic about this is that they want thwart the president's anti-terror policies. They didn't complain when Clinton looked at those FBI files. They didn't complain when Saddam turned Iraq into a police state. Their newfound love of "privacy rights" is simply a consequence of the anti-Bush mania that drives their every thought and action.
PUBLIC DENUNCIATION:James Risen,NYTIMES have allegedly received +released classified info (vanity)
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