Saturday, December 24, 2005
The Bush White House Lied......Again
Spying on U.S. Citizens
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"Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
---Benjamin Franklin
From USA Today : "Report: NSA spying broader than Bush acknowledged
NEW YORK (AP) — The National Security Agency has conducted much broader surveillance of e-mails and phone calls — without court orders — than the Bush administration has acknowledged, The New York Times reported on its website.
NEW YORK (AP) — The National Security Agency has conducted much broader surveillance of e-mails and phone calls — without court orders — than the Bush administration has acknowledged, The New York Times reported on its website.
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- Since the Times disclosed the domestic spying program last week, President Bush has stressed that his executive order allowing the eavesdropping was limited to people with known links to al-Qaeda.
- But the Times said that NSA technicians have combed through large volumes of phone and Internet traffic in search of patterns that might lead to terrorists.
- The volume of information harvested from telecommunications data and voice networks, without court-approved warrants, is much larger than the White House has acknowledged, the paper said, quoting an unnamed official.
"Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
---Benjamin Franklin
