Posted on 12/23/2005 12:00:17 PM PST by Sub-Driver
US monitored Muslim sites for radiation: report
5 minutes ago
U.S. officials have secretly monitored radiation levels at Muslim sites, including mosques and private homes, since September 11, 2001 as part of a top secret program searching for nuclear bombs, U.S. News and World Report said on Friday.
The news magazine said in its online edition that the far-reaching program covered more than a hundred sites in the Washington, D.C., area and at least five other cities.
"In numerous cases, the monitoring required investigators to go on to the property under surveillance, although no search warrants or court orders were ever obtained, according to those with knowledge of the program," the magazine said.
The report comes a week after revelations that the Bush administration had authorized eavesdropping on people in the United States. U.S. President George W. Bush has defended that covert program and vowed to continue the practice, saying it was vital to protect the country.
Senior U.S. officials, including FBI Director Robert Mueller, have repeatedly said Islamic militants appeared intent on acquiring weapons of mass destruction for an attack against the United States.
Mueller said in February he was "very concerned with the growing body of sensitive reporting that continues to show al Qaeda's clear intention to obtain and ultimately use some form of chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or high-energy explosives material in its attacks against America."
An FBI spokesman declined to confirm or deny the U.S. News and World Report article and said, "We can't talk about a classified program."
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The more of this stuff the MSM reveal, the more Americans are in danger.
no, not the "entire" agency - but there are plenty of people in those agencies like that.
Aren't gieger counters detecting molecules that would be off the property?
This is such great news. Thank You President Bush for making really smart decisions on our behalf. ;o)
my guess is probably 1 or 2 per 1000 or so, just from my observations.....
There, fixed it. (I hope)
Uhh, I guess it's not top secret anymore. What is the "tipping point" of leaking secret information? Would the NYT publish ICBM launch codes if they were leaked to them?
if you read post 88, apparently even thermal imaging of any law enforcement person using their sense of smell - is also unconstitutional.
I hate to say this - but I bet the FBI suspends this program now that it has been "outed". the muslims and the ACLU are going to go into court over this.
It's time to round up the traitors........
I'm ready to see someone do hard time for crap like this. I am absolutely sick and tired of the MSM placing national security - and by translation, the security provided to myself and my family - behind selling magazines and newspapers and attracting viewers.
It needs to STOP. NOW.
well, it ain't no secret now
while I agree with you, I am not so sure the SCOTUS would. when you've got Scalia joining that kind of decision.
Sounds good to me.
Thermal imaging is measuring heat on the property. A geiger counter would be measuring molcules off the property.
anyone smell rocketfeller, turbin durbin, or the mother of all murthas?
I know. all I am saying is, if the decision in post 88 is broad enough - it would say that any detection that can determine the contents of a home, is a warrantless search. this apparantly would also mean that if the police smell or hear something outside a home - that somehow that is a "search" of that home? if the police smell certain meth lab chemicals outside a home, does that consitute a warrantless search?
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