Posted on 12/19/2005 8:06:43 AM PST by hags
During the 1990's under President Clinton, the National Security Agency monitored millions of private phone calls placed by U.S. citizens and citizens of other countries under a super secret program code-named Echelon.
On Friday, the New York Times suggested that the Bush administration has instituted "a major shift in American intelligence-gathering practices" when it "secretly authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on Americans and others inside the United States to search for evidence of terrorist activity without [obtaining] court-approved warrants."
But in fact, the NSA had been monitoring private domestic telephone conversations on a much larger scale throughout the 1990s - all of it done without a court order, let alone a catalyst like the 9/11 attacks.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
"I wonder if anyone remembers that deal, where the couple overheard the conversation on their radio scanner or something, recorded it, and gave it to a member of Congress? Maybe that was a result of clinton listening in on private conversations. Hey - we know they used FBI files in the same way."
Newt and McDermott case......I think that's the one your talking about.
http://kiro.liquidviewer.net/kiro-od/jimmcdermottdec16.asf
http://kiro.liquidviewer.net/kiro-od/jimmcdermottdec16.asf
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