[mnehring]

Misleading title.. remember the original report stated that international phone calls and e-mails were tapped.. This changes the entire legal platform of the issue.

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That's how they phrased the question.

[technomage]

Misleading title.. remember the original report stated that international phone calls and e-mails were tapped

Exactly. From what I understand of this program and what the President authorized is to listen in to phone calls originating from outside the USA.

Also, if I have my facts correct, virtually all of the tapped calls came from information gathered from computers, disks, paperwork captured from dead or in-custody terrorists. Phone numbers within the USA which were found this way were obviously suspect.

What these Old MSM types fail to report is that this type of covert activity was going on 100% WITHIN the USA during the Klinton administration. First that comes to mind is the OC bombing where Klinton authorized that the NSA resources by used to track down the bombers using spy satellites among other things. The second example would be Waco.