George W. Bush justified his warrantless wiretapping by relying on Justice Department attorney John Yoo’s theories of unlimited presidential wartime powers, and started the spying operation even before Yoo issued a formal opinion, a government investigation discovered. Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu
Leopold expands upon the findings of the July 10 inspectors general report and the unconstitutional illegalities of the bush administration.
Various journalistic accounts have suggested that Bush’s spying program crossed the line from zeroing in on specific surveillance targets to “data-mining” a broad spectrum of electronic communications. Suggesting that the government gathered information on many innocent people, the inspectors general stated that “the collection activities pursued under the PSP … involved unprecedented collection activities. We believe the retention and use by IC [intelligence community] organizations of information collected under the PSP … should be carefully monitored.”
As with the torture policies, President Bush relied on exaggerations of dangers and on legal theories that were essentially pre-cooked.
Crimes were committed. Where is the law and order sensitivity of the GOP?