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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JakeStraw who wrote (51998)	1/19/2006 2:32:17 PM
From: Mao II	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

You probably missed this: WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 - In the anxious months after the Sept. 11 attacks, the National Security Agency began sending a steady stream of telephone numbers, e-mail addresses and names to the F.B.I. in search of terrorists. The stream soon became a flood, requiring hundreds of agents to check out thousands of tips a month. But virtually all of them, current and former officials say, led to dead ends or innocent Americans. F.B.I. officials repeatedly complained to the spy agency, which was collecting much of the data by eavesdropping on some Americans' international communications and conducting computer searches of foreign-related phone and Internet traffic, that the unfiltered information was swamping investigators. Some F.B.I. officials and prosecutors also thought the checks, which sometimes involved interviews by agents, were pointless intrusions on Americans' privacy. As the bureau was running .... nytimes.com

To: JakeStraw who wrote (51998)	1/19/2006 2:39:03 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

"Yeah we certainly wouldn't want to interfere with the rights of suspected al Qaeda terrorists... I mean they really accept our rights to things like been able to go to work without the fear of getting murdered." The chimp could have done everything he did WITHIN the law. That's the point you ignore. We have only his word he's only been monitoring AQ terrorists. If he'd done it lawfully, we'd know he had had oversight.

To: JakeStraw who wrote (51998)	1/19/2006 2:39:14 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 93284

What Bush did is illegal. PERIOD. He has wasted time, money, valuable resources that could and should be directed toward protecting citizens rather than shredding the Bill of Rights. To Bush and you, the Constitution is a "goddamn piece of paper." More than a dozen current and former law enforcement and counterterrorism officials, including some in the small circle who knew of the secret eavesdropping program and how it played out at the F.B.I., said the torrent of tips led them to few potential terrorists inside the country they did not know of from other sources and diverted agents from counterterrorism work they viewed as more productive. "We'd chase a number, find it's a school teacher with no indication they've ever been involved in international terrorism - case closed," said one former FBI official, who was aware of the program and the data it generated for the bureau. "After you get a thousand numbers and not one is turning up anything, you get some frustration." nytimes.com