Reid seeks probe of Bush domestic spying

Hmmm. Well, I wonder what's going to be a bigger priority for Congress: More tax cuts for fat cats, more budget cuts for the needy, or maybe they might want to take a look at what the president has been doing behind their backs.

.....http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5626071

so * has been eavesdropping for 4 years and briefs Congress about it a couple of months ago. :wow: did he think no one was going to mention it?

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday that public disclosure of surveillance programs used to wage the war on terror damages those efforts.

Rice, who was Bush's national security adviser when the program began, acknowledged that she was aware of it.

In appearances on news shows, she echoed Bush's defense of domestic spying, calling it necessary and within his legal authority, as well as his criticism of reports disclosing it.

"It is really a serious matter when we get the disclosure of a program like this because, after all, what we must do is protect, from those trying to hurt us, knowledge of how we follow them, how we follow their activities," Rice said on "Fox News Sunday."

...Reid said whoever disclosed the existence of the surveillance program should be prosecuted, but he said the president should not have unchecked authority to disregard the Constitution.

Rice said that listening to terror leader Osama bin Laden's telephone conversations had been successful until news reports disclosed it and bin Laden stopped using the phone.

"The more that we get the exposure of these very sensitive programs, the more it undermines our ability to follow terrorists, to know about their activities," she said.

Rice could not cite the constitutional and other authority she contended allowed Bush to authorize the domestic spying. However, she said the program had been reviewed by administration lawyers and that congressional leaders had been briefed.

"This is a war where intelligence is the long pole in the tent," Rice said on "Meet the Press" on NBC.

of this traitorous emperor.

assasination according to British bi-monthly newsletter Defence Intelligence Monitor (no online edition, subscription only).

In their December 2001 issue one feature attributed the collosal intelligence failure of 9/11 to George Tenet agreeing to Pentagon orders to delete and erase all files relating to Aldrich Ames espionage network, both in the US and abroad. These Pentagon orders allegedly from a highly secretive cabal of military top brass who wanted Vladimir Putin to become 'electable' in Russia following the disaster of Boris Yeltsin's administration. Subsequent issues have run articles saying the WMD fantasy was a continuation of this intelligence deletion and focused on the re-brading of Putin as a plausible good guy and necessary political player on the global stage.

DIM also ran a story in January 2003 saying that the transcripts of 1996 - 2002 NATO wire taps on Cheney, Bush2 and Powell have been in cold storage in a sumbarine facility off the Azores just waiting for an appropriate configuration of global military intelligence agencies to agree new political power structure to take over after Shrubco gets put out to grass...to co-incide with the Ken Lay Enron trial.