Were we misled then, or now?
Orange County Register
by Steve Chapman
01/23/07
Is President Bush surrendering in the war on terror? For more than a year, the administration has insisted that preserving its ‘terrorist surveillance program,’ which involves unfettered and unauthorized wiretapping of Americans suspected of communicating with al-Qaida operatives abroad, was, in the words of former press secretary Scott McClellan, ‘a vital tool’ for us ‘to stay a step ahead of a deadly enemy that is determined to strike America again.’ Now, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales says the program will not be renewed. Before, we were told it was impossible to combat terrorism within the rules of the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which places such investigations under the review of a special intelligence court — a process Gonzales portrayed as cumbersome and obsolete...
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by Steve Chapman
01/23/07
Is President Bush surrendering in the war on terror? For more than a year, the administration has insisted that preserving its ‘terrorist surveillance program,’ which involves unfettered and unauthorized wiretapping of Americans suspected of communicating with al-Qaida operatives abroad, was, in the words of former press secretary Scott McClellan, ‘a vital tool’ for us ‘to stay a step ahead of a deadly enemy that is determined to strike America again.’ Now, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales says the program will not be renewed. Before, we were told it was impossible to combat terrorism within the rules of the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which places such investigations under the review of a special intelligence court — a process Gonzales portrayed as cumbersome and obsolete...
http://tinyurl.com/2qajwn
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gonzales
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=surveillance
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=wiretapping
rudkla - 25. Jan, 16:22
