Halting illegal spying on Americans
Common Dreams
by Bruce I. Afran and Carl J. Mayer
03/06/08
Almost seven years after the September 11, 2001 attacks, mainstream media and Congressional Democrats are finally beginning to defy President Bush’s illegal and unconstitutional program of spying on Americans. During an astounding press conference on February 28, 2008, President Bush was jarred by the veteran and habitually-reserved CBS correspondent, Bill Plante, who asked point blank: ‘I know it’s unintended to spy on Americans, but in the collection process information about everybody gets swept up and then it gets sorted. So if Americans don’t have any recourse, are you just telling them when it comes to their privacy to suck it up?’ Stunned by the question, Bush delivered a condescending non-sequiter: ‘I wouldn’t put it that way, if I were you — in public. You’ve been around long enough.’ (The President never disputed Plante’s premise that everyone’s information is vacuumed up by the government.)...
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/06/7524/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=spying
by Bruce I. Afran and Carl J. Mayer
03/06/08
Almost seven years after the September 11, 2001 attacks, mainstream media and Congressional Democrats are finally beginning to defy President Bush’s illegal and unconstitutional program of spying on Americans. During an astounding press conference on February 28, 2008, President Bush was jarred by the veteran and habitually-reserved CBS correspondent, Bill Plante, who asked point blank: ‘I know it’s unintended to spy on Americans, but in the collection process information about everybody gets swept up and then it gets sorted. So if Americans don’t have any recourse, are you just telling them when it comes to their privacy to suck it up?’ Stunned by the question, Bush delivered a condescending non-sequiter: ‘I wouldn’t put it that way, if I were you — in public. You’ve been around long enough.’ (The President never disputed Plante’s premise that everyone’s information is vacuumed up by the government.)...
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/06/7524/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=spying
rudkla - 7. Mär, 13:03
