Scoop Full Coverage: The NSA Domestic Spying Scandal
Jason
Leopold: Illegal NSA Spying Began Earlier Than Thought
- The National Security Agency advised President
Bush in early 2001 that it had been eavesdropping on
Americans during the course of its work monitoring suspected
terrorists and foreigners believed to have ties to terrorist
groups, according to a declassified document. The NSA's vast
data-mining activities began shortly after Bush was sworn in
as president and the document contradicts his assertion that
the 9/11 attacks prompted him to take the unprecedented step
of signing a secret executive order authorizing the NSA to
monitor a select number of American citizens thought to have
ties to terrorist groups. See... Bush
Authorized Domestic Spying Before 9/11
Scoop Full
Coverage: The NSA Domestic Spying Scandal - 2006
began with Mr. Bush brazenly insisting that he can
unilaterally order wiretaps on American citizens without
judicial oversight, even if warrantless domestic wiretaps
are explicitly prohibited by federal law. Under what
rationale? Mr. Bush claims the virtually unlimited
presidential power to override any laws, and even to cancel
our constitutionally-guaranteed civil liberties, because the
US is at war. See... E.A.
Peterson: On The Necessity Of Impeachment
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