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From: Mario Profaca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: July 8, 2008 7:43:44 AM PDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [SPY NEWS] The Spying Started Before September 11 -- That's
The Whole Point
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20080706/cm_huffpost/111023;_ylt=A0WTUZRAi3JIPQQAAB_9wxIF
The Spying Started /Before/ September 11 -- That's The Whole /Point/
Dave Johnson/Sun Jul 6, 7:30 PM ET/
In the LA Times today, A Good-Enough Spy Law says,
In the aftermath of Sept. 11, the White House directed
telecommunications carriers to cooperate with its efforts to bolster
intelligence gathering and surveillance -- the administration's effort
to do a better job of "connecting the dots" to prevent terrorist
attacks.
No, it started a few weeks after Bush took office -- a time when the
Bush administration was ignoring the terrorist threat. So it was about
something else, and was a high enough priority to plan out during the
transition. (Can you say "political spying?")
One telecom company, Qwest, refused because it was flat-out illegal.
The
Bush administration punished them, blocked federal contracts, and in
an
early indicator of what was to come from the politicized Bush Justice
Department, they prosecuted Qwest's CEO on trumped-up charges.
The combination of the telecoms letting Bush illegally spy on us
BEFORE
September 11, and the politicized Bush Justice Department punishing
the
company that refused -- refused because it was illegal -- is the
reason
so many of us are so adamant that Democrats should not be passing a
law
giving these companies immunity. The president can't spy on people
without warrants, and the telecoms knew that. They knew it was illegal
to spy on us without warrants but they went along with it. Why? Why
didn't they ask the Bush administration to just get warrants? And why
would Democrats vote to let them off the hook?
Don't forget that Watergate was about Republicans illegally
wiretapping
Democrats. Don 't think they don't do it.
[note- NY Times link added after posting]
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