Posted on 12/19/2005 8:06:43 AM PST by hags
I would not be surprised if all modern Presidents have done this. That is what needs to be learned. I don't think this is just a Clinton and Dubya recent deal.
They can monitor me all they want.
If they want to listen to my mom tell me about her dog, or my girlfriend talk about her hair... have it at!
BTTT
See, this is what happens when you get so focused on one thing. We could easily have impeached Clinton and removed him for office for this, but instead, we were wasting our time on Lewinsky. We just weren't agressive enough.
Able Danger could have, if it hadn't been broken up in April of 2000. The project supposedly was blocked from telling the FBI what it had discovered by Defense Department lawyers who were afraid word would get out that the government was breaking the law by letting intelligence agencies spy inside the U.S.
And let's also not forget the satellite used to monitor events at Elohim City prior to the OKC bombing and COINTELPRO.
Truth is...the Government has been spying on citizens for decades. Only when it involves Bush are they outraged.
Exactly, every President and congress since the beginning understood the need for intelligence, and that a nation must do what is necessary to get it.
Constitutional authority is granted as long as there proper congressional oversite. The fact that domestic spying often involves FISA requests via the judicial branch is only careful protection of civil rights.
Now if we can only get congress to quit leaking our secrets to the NYT and WaPo.
Strange thing though, not one mention of Clinton in the whole article. </sarcasm>
Seems it was all the NSA's fault back then.
Sure to be big news everywhere. We'll need more alternative media if we're ever to get anything besides Bush-bashing.
I suppose Klinton was eavesdropping on all the sorority houses across the country, trolling for potential interns...
Clinton only eavesdropped on the 900 numbers.
Of course not. That's like 60 Minutes doing an Enron story about 1996 connections to the White House and showing file footage of President Bush.
Rush is discussing this now...
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.
DUPLICATE THREAD - this was posted over the weekend.
I took the time this afternoon to send along info to all the major networks regarding this 4 year old story. Gee, none of them mentioned it.
Google is our friend:
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1997/01/13/tape/index.shtml
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/congress/january97/cellular_1-14.html
http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=14035&printerfriendly=1
the big difference is, as bush pointed out today, that there is monitoring and there is intercepting.
Monitoring is within the USA just listening in on lines; he did not authorize the NSA to do that; they intercepted international communication with groups with known ties to terrorists.
Yes. That's the policy around here, and why we have a search function here. Duplicate threads, particularly in the old days of FR, took up valuable "bandwidth".
Duplicate threads, particularly in the old days of FR
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