Did * issue an executive order prior to 9/11 authorizing domestic spying?

[jody]

"Bush Authorized Domestic Spying Before 9/11" at Truthout says "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."

Presidential executive orders are law and people are prosecuted for violations, e.g. John Walker Lindh was indicted for violating "National Emergency and Executive Order 13129"
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On July 4, 1999, President of the United States William J. Clinton declared a national emergency to deal with the threat posed by al Qaeda and the Taliban. Specifically, the President found that:

The actions and policies of the Taliban in Afghanistan, in allowing territory under its control in Afghanistan to be used as a safe haven and base of operations for Usama bin Ladin and the Al-Qaida organization who have committed and threaten to continue to commit acts of violence against the United States and its nationals, constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.

In his Executive Order 13129, the President prohibited, among other things, the making or receiving of any contribution of funds, goods, or services to or for the benefit of the Taliban.
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Executive Orders Issued by President George W. Bush apparently does not include an "executive order authorizing the NSA to monitor a select number of American citizens thought to have ties to terrorist groups."

Since executive orders are laws even though congress did not pass them, can Bush sign "secret executive orders" and then use DOJ and federal courts to enforce his secret decrees?

All Executive Orders