Reply #18: This is utter BULLSHIT! [View All]

[KansDem]

Bush AUTHORIZED illegal spying BEFORE 9/11:

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.

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James Risen, author of the book State of War and credited with first breaking the story about the NSA's domestic surveillance operations, said President Bush personally authorized a change in the agency's long-standing policies shortly after he was sworn in in 2001.

"The president personally and directly authorized new operations, like the NSA's domestic surveillance program, that almost certainly would never have been approved under normal circumstances and that raised serious legal or political questions," Risen wrote in the book. "Because of the fevered climate created throughout the government by the president and his senior advisers, Bush sent signals of what he wanted done, without explicit presidential orders" and "the most ambitious got the message."



http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/printer_011306Z.shtml

Considering that Clinton advised Bush that al Qaeda was the most important terrorist issue of the day, the question put to Bush should be: "Who or what the Hell were you spying on prior to 9/11 if you weren't monitoring al Qaeda terrorists?"

I simply can't believe that Bush would authorize illegal domestic spying and NOT have stopped the 9/11 attacks!

It might also explain why he did nothing when told by Andy Card about the attacks: he already knew they were coming!!!

WHY CAN'T ANYONE SEE THIS!!!