Report: Bush surveillance program was massive

AP on Yahoo ^ | 7/10/09 | Pamela Hess - ap

[NormsRevenge]

WASHINGTON – The Bush administration built an unprecedented surveillance operation to pull in mountains of information far beyond the warrantless wiretapping previously acknowledged, a team of federal inspectors general reported Friday, questioning the legal basis for the effort but shielding almost all details on grounds they're still too secret to reveal.

The report, compiled by five inspectors general, refers to "unprecedented collection activities" by U.S. intelligence agencies under an executive order signed by President George W. Bush after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.

Just what those activities involved remains classified, but the IGs pointedly say that any continued use of the secret programs must be "carefully monitored."

[mad_as_he$$]

Winner!

[Bryan24]

“Your point 1 simply is not true. there have been at least 10 attacks on US soil that were Muslim driven.
Point 2 is that there are some 10 individuals that were hauled off by the Feds and have never been heard from again. Those are ones without any terrorist connections.”

OK, list all of the attacks. These attacks must be coordinated attacks from outside the US, because there is no way that any intelligence gathering program of any kind can stop 1 person from launching a lone attack.
THe specific discussion here is “Attacks planned outside the US and executed inside the US.”

On point #2, I call BS. List the 10 people. Also, how do you know they have nothing to do with terrorism? Unless you are the one who hauled them off, you haven’t the faintest clue.