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This is just now coming out?
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.”
The inspectors general interviewed more than 200 people inside and outside the government, but five former Bush administration officials refused to be questioned. They were Ashcroft, Yoo, former CIA Director George Tenet, former White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card and David Addington, an aide to former Vice President Dick Cheney.
Although the report documents Bush administration policies, its fallout could be a problem for the Obama administration if it inherited any or all of the still-classified operations.
“The notion that basically one person at the Justice Department, John Yoo, and Hayden and the vice president’s office were running a program around the laws that Congress passed, including a reinterpretation of the Fourth Amendment, is mind boggling,” Harman said.
House Democrats are pressing for legislation that would expand congressional access to secret intelligence briefings, but the White House has threatened to veto it.
Let’s see what Obama has to say about this mess.
#33 – When logic fails the libtards play the race card. You probably think I’m white. ROFLMAO
#34
I don’t tolerate racists of any persuasion.
Please respect my disgust and give me a little distance. I just can’t stand the smell.
Meantime, Obama’s climate czar told auto execs never to write anything down about negotiations on car mileage rules, to avoid anything being made public, but hey Bush may have done something we don’t like!
# 35 Weary Reaper said, “I don’t tolerate racists of any persuasion.”
Nice attitude but, non sequitur to the discussion at hand.
Heehee, it didn’t take long for the cretinous Rush Limabaugh crowd to wake up and start defend their dumb draft-dodging hero, Georgy Porgy.
What will Rush tell you to think on Monday? I bet you can’t wait, huh retards?
If it was a patently illegal spying program, why is it still secret???
What the hell is Obama doing?
I demand a full-investigation of the Bush domestic spying program.
I have good reason to believe that my civil rights were violated by the Bush administration. I don’t seek vengeance but I want to know the truth.
Weary Reaper, you should just avoid this blog then. They have the audacity to criticize rap music as not real music.
Another step in watching the “America Self Implosion Show” We will never see all that the Bush Boys did to our country… Rule of the day and interpretations their way!!! The Bush Legacy Carries on…but maybe we should call it the Cheney Legacy.. Bush was’nt bright enough to come up with all of this?..
# 33 Weary Reaper said
“What does LOL mean? Loving Our Lord? How does that apply?”
“Who is O’mama? Is that a racist slur?”
Hey a liberal double! Religion and racism in one reply. But you still get points deducted for not having a gender reference.
So predictable.
# 39 Rick Cain said, “If it was a patently illegal spying program, why is it still secret??? What the hell is Obama doing?”
Yep, it is known that Bush violated the constitution. The million $ question (that libtards will do anything other than answer) is why O’mama is continuing the illegal actions that he campaigned against?
# 40 Greg Allen said, “I have good reason to believe that my civil rights were violated by the Bush administration.”
If so, Include O’mam admin as he has continued the same programs. Of course you won’t demand that as you don’t care as long as it is you buddy that violates the constitution. What a sucker.
So once again, when the facts come out, the people on this website are found to be wrong.
http://dvorak.org/blog/2007/07/24/gonzales-caught-in-lie-about-spying-program/
Turns out, Gonzales wasn’t lying, in fact the dispute was over other intelligence activities, though the DOJ finds his testimony confusing to people not in the know.
One Senator said, ‘Do you expect us to believe that Mr. Attorney General?’ Figures it would be the Republican that is now a Democrat, Specter.
Now they are covering up Cheney’s super secret plan for a coup d’etat and martial law:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/us/politics/12intel.html?_r=1&hp
Where are the subpoenas and indictments ??? Or is Cheney holding a BLANET PARDON ???
#46, Lyin’ Mike,
Turns out, Gonzales wasn’t lying, in fact the dispute was over other intelligence activities, though the DOJ finds his testimony confusing to people not in the know.
Gonzales lied. He knew the topic of discussion.
Has anybody read President Hussein Admin’s Justice Department ruling that they are immune from legal suit even when violating Federal Law? I doubt it, too many leftist assistant blogging here….
Whatever……………..
Traaxx
Send W off to Jail.
#50, traaxx,
Has anybody read President Hussein Admin’s Justice Department ruling that they are immune from legal suit even when violating Federal Law?
If you are referring to Saddam Hussein, he has long been removed from power. He no longer has a Justice Department. Which has nothing on earth to do with American law.
I doubt it, too many leftist assistant blogging here….
Spoken like a true, out of touch, Boss Limpdick fan, Palin worshiping right wing nut.