Bush Authorized Domestic Spying before 9/11 (Jason Leopold)

[kpete]

Bush Authorized Domestic Spying before 9/11
By Jason Leopold
t r u t h o u t | Perspective

Friday 13 January 2006

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.

In its "Transition 2001" report, the NSA said that the ever-changing world of global communication means that "American communication and targeted adversary communication will coexist."

"Make no mistake, NSA can and will perform its missions consistent with the Fourth Amendment and all applicable laws," the document says

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011306Z.shtml

[Historic NY]

1. Hummmm

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.

So Bush knew an attack was was planned by terorists. This gives new meaning to his PDB.....bin Laden determined to attack with airplanes. Perhaps as this article suggests that the NSA, CIA & FBI were supposed to be sharing intelligence intercepts, the attack could have been prevented.

[OneBlueSky]

2. in a similar vein, let's not forget that the Patriot Act was ready . . .

to go well before 9/11 . . . all they needed was a rationale for making it law . . . makes you wonder WHY this legislation was drafted and in place before there was any hint of a 9/11 happening . . . seems they (the PNAC crew) have had the total takeover of the US and its government in mind for quite some time . . .