Posted on 07/10/2009 5:12:21 PM PDT by 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."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
If it kept innocent American citizens from being murdered, I don’t care if they found out every single thing about me.
Benjamin Franklin wsnt dealing with people flying airplanes into buildings and killing 3,000 people.
"Our enemies" existed when Franklin made his statement, and what he said applies now the same as when he spoke. It's not complicated.
You're either a nut or a troll.
That is precisely the sort of moral relativism that has lead to the trashing of our Constitutional principles in almost every regard.
God bless President Bush and our brave troops.
Franklin was referring to our own citizens and not enemies of our country. A fact that seems to have slipped by the noob.
God bless President Bush and our brave troops.
The quote from Franklin was referring to our own citizens and not terrorists.
Franklin would have never approved of eavesdropping on American citizens inside the United States to search for evidence of terrorist activity without the court-approved warrants ordinarily required for domestic spying.
And there it is! The left's talking point.
The phone numbers that were tracked inside our country were gotten from captured terrorists cellphones and laptops.
Listen liberal fool. We have captured many terrorist cells and have stopped many terrorist attacks on our homeland because of President Bush anti-terrorism policies.
ladies and gentlemen, your democrat party motto “party before country”...
That only applies to US citizens. You are a troll.
The phone numbers that were tracked inside our country were gotten from captured terrorists cellphones and laptops.
Uh, did you happen to read the posted article that started this thread?
Are you stupid enough to believe that press?
Two ravens is a left wing liberal. A review of his few posts since he joined our forum indicates this without any shadow of doubt. He should go to Bermuda and buy ice cream to the terrorists that Obama released there from Gitmo. May if he does this the terrorists will love him (extreme sarcasm). He is typical delusional liberal idiot who is totally detached from reality.
I came to the same conclusion several posts ago.
You think that "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights..." applies only to US citizens?
No wonder the GOP has become so liberal, when the plainspoken conservative wisdom of the Founders is so routinely shat upon.
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