Posted on 07/31/2007 6:58:32 PM PDT by james500
The Bush administration's anti-terrorist surveillance efforts are more extensive than top officials have acknowledged, going beyond the controversial no-warrant eavesdropping program, the U.S. intelligence chief said Tuesday.
President Bush acknowledged a program allowing the government to wiretap phone calls without obtaining a warrant in 2005. The program, run by the National Security Agency, is at the center of disputed congressional testimony by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
Gonzales is defending himself against allegations that he lied to Congress about a 2004 dispute between the White House and Justice Department over the legality of the eavesdropping program.
In a letter defending the embattled attorney general, National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell states that eavesdropping is just one of the programs President Bush authorized after the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington.
"This is the only aspect of the NSA activities that can be discussed publicly because it is the only aspect of those various activities whose existence has been fully acknowledged," McConnell wrote.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Way to go CNN, make sure the Islamofascist know EVERYTHING we have in our playbook. You sick S*B’s
Screw the Dimocraps. Whatever the Bush administration is doing to keep us safe is OK with me. I don’t see the “gross violation of civil rights” proclaimed by liberals and professed in the MSM.
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They shouldn’t say anything to anyone. There job is to protect this country. Frankly, I don’t care what they do as long as this country is safe.
It's kinda like Bill Cosby in "200 MPH." "As near as I can figure, they've gotta be hidin' in my trunk."
“Frankly, I don’t care what they do as long as this country is safe.”
As long as it’s in the interest of national security right? Careful, loaded question here.
In the first place. The Bush administration is not spying on Americans. Unless they have some link to terrorism. And the final answer to the spying question. What would any law abiding American have to hide anyway?
Much less spying than Klinton’s program.
The government agency that does by far the most surveillance of our citizens would be the IRS.
The full letter is linked here:
http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2007/images/07/31/31.july.2007.dni.lette.tohon.specter.pdf
Not much there that isn’t in the article but I noticed they stayed away from quoting, “it remains the case that the operational details even of the activity acknowledged and described by the President have not been made public and cannot be disclosed without harming national security.”
Gee. Oh and just to point out a fact........there have been no terrorist attacks in America during that period.
But there have been a bunch of arrests of suspected terrorists.
Funny the MSM fails to note the above fact.
Why not just tell Osama they are tracking him by his cell phone. Oh yeah, you already did that...
The one that REALLY got to me was after the bad guys released that video of UBL with the rocky terrain (2003). MSM fell over itself to explain that we had specialized geologist analysts identifying exactly where the video had been taken. I don’t believe any outdoors videos have been released since then.
Why do the bad guys need their own intelligence services when they’ve got NY Times?
CNN's AntiAmerican MOTTO and CREED : Ted Turner, June 18, 2002:
"So who are the terrorists?
I would make a case that both sides are involved in terrorism."
Much less spying than Mark Penn, Hillary’s pollster, has done to his rival!!! Matk Penn should be in JAIL for what he did.
Why is it not surprising that ole Hil would have an unethical minion.
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