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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