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“At the same time, that capability at any time could be turned around on the American people and no American would have any privacy left, such [is] the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn’t matter. There would be no place to hide. If this government ever became a tyranny, if a dictator […]

Let’s set aside the law and the Constitution here for a minute and talk about something a little bit less weighty but nevertheless important. Bush has spent his whole Presidency “creating new realities” as one of his flacks so famously said to David Suskind once. He thinks of himself as taking bold actions which change […]

This is opinion here; I’m not going to annotate it with all of the “evidence” that backs me up. Bush’s controversial secret program, started in 2001, is listening on, analyzing, or recording just about ANY electronic communication that either goes in or out of the United States, crossing the borders. This is directly forbidden in […]

Take a look at this letter – it can no longer be claimed that Democrats knew and approved at any level of what Bush was doing. Secrecy rules required Rockefeller not to speak up about all of this (he should have anyway in my opinion). so he wrote this letter and cleverly protected it to […]

Washington Post– the only thing Bush ever “notified Congressional leaders” about was new wiretapping technology; he never told them about warrantless searches.