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Bush’s Spy Program Predated 9/11Posted on Jan 16, 2006
Truthout: 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. Advertisement New and Improved CommentsWe are launching a major overhaul of our comments section. In addition to more robust spam filtering and moderation, new features include the ability to rate other comments, sort how they are displayed and respond directly via e-mail or in a thread. Unfortunately, commenters will lose their existing Truthdig identities. It's a pain, we know, but on the plus side you will now be able to log in with a plethora of options, including Google, Twitter, Facebook and Disqus accounts. Before launching this system we spent months in discussion with our top commenters. We listened to the feedback and we hope you like what we've come up with. Please direct any problems or concerns to us via our contact page. |
By Alex, January 22, 2006 at 10:25 pm Link to this comment
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How much more has to go on before enough people wake up and throw this monster out of power? I thought American’s prided themselves on freedom of speech and right to privacy. Am I wrong?
Report thisBy Margaret T. Currey, January 16, 2006 at 9:15 am Link to this comment
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Bush and company decided early on to defraud this company, and now people see that he should be impeached.
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