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The Bush administration had briefed congressional leaders about the program and notified the judge in charge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, the secret Washington court that handles national security issues.
How is this even news? The Administration directed the NSA to conduct survellience on US Citizens with the full knowledge of the Court and the Senate yet some how it was done in secret. From what I understand the intercepts were done on the receiving end not here in the states. What the times also failed to disclose is that the author of the article also is the author of a book that is due out shortly and that the times sat on the story until shortly before the books release.
What ever respect I had for the left in this country is long gone. God forbid we try to protect ourselves. It's not like Lincoln held people without charging them. It's not like Roosevelt rounded up tens of thousadns of Americans and locked them up. It is not like Roosevelt tried and executed German spies outside of the US legal system. If the day that another attack happens on US soil let it be the NY Times building. Maybe then they can see the folly of their ways.
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