And you thought they were only tapping phones without warrants!
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is being asked
to provide records about a data-mining program. Uh-huh.
This really is an NSA poster
The Bush administration’s anti-terrorist surveillance efforts are more extensive than top officials have acknowledged, going beyond the controversial no-warrant eavesdropping program, Mike McConnell, the U.S. intelligence chief said Tuesday.
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is being asked to provide records about a data-mining program.
Read this sleazy rationale:
In a letter defending the embattled attorney general, National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell states that eavesdropping is just one of the programs President Bush authorized after the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington.
“This is the only aspect of the NSA activities that can be discussed publicly because it is the only aspect of those various activities whose existence has been fully acknowledged,” McConnell wrote.
Congressional whizbangs are confident the “other” aspects are NSA data mining emails and more. Of course, we are reassured by Bush’s Dick -
“”I think the key is whether or not [Gonzales] has the confidence of the president, and he clearly does.”
Posted: Wed - August 1, 2007 at 08:36 AM