Again, I want to know WHO Bush has been spying on.

This is the relevant subject, not Bill Clinton. Our media is so damned anxious to be led away from meaningful questions, it's just pathetic.

WHO has Bush been illegally spying on?

the hearings need to audit the subjects of every unwarranted surveillance. i suspect they will find political abuses that will be horrifying.

But don't bet the rent money on it. If it is true that Clenis had warrantless searches, then there is a better chance we will know who those were conducted on, before we ever hear about Cheney and Bush's victims.

WHERE is Richard Clarke in all THIS??

He was NSA in BOTH admins. Has he been making ANY comment, anywhere?

Bolton was involved!

Written April 2005: http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/000538.html

completely unanticipated development in the NSA intercepts issue was that unnamed senior level sources who are cleared but refuse to say much more indicated that NM Governor Bill Richardson may be part of the package of NSA intercepts interest exhibited by John Bolton.

This may or may not be true. It seems to me to be a simple, binary question. Bolton requested names of U.S. officials in ten sets of intercepts requested and perused by Bolton. Either Richardson was part of the mix, or not. NSA should find a way to make that clear.

On another front, some were speculating that Bolton's real target of interest was American Envoy for Negotiations with North Korea Jack Pritchard. There seem to have been a number of other officials who interested him as well. The issue with Pritchard, however, is that Bolton was requesting names of officials that were scrubbed out in intercept transcripts. It would have been clear to Bolton or anyone else reading the NSA reports who the official was if it was Pritchard -- so the request for a name seems either redundant or silly.

I would hope this clears it up for the thread starter.

about Bolton's NSA requests during his hearings too

"Pat Roberts, and its top Democrat, Jay Rockefeller, got a closed-door briefing on Bolton's NSA dealings from the deputy intel czar, Gen. Michael Hayden. The senators agreed Bolton's initial NSA requests for U.S. names were legit. But the normally collegial Roberts and Rockefeller couldn't agree on whether Bolton handled the names appropriately once he received them.

Senator Roberts argued that Democrats called unnecessary attention to intel "sources and methods" by raising Bolton's NSA dealings publicly. Rockefeller complained that Bolton sought out a State Department official whose name was supplied by the NSA "to congratulate him"—for unspecified reasons—which Rockefeller said was "not in keeping" with Bolton's request for the uncensored NSA report. Roberts said this charge was ill founded.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8017664/site/newsweek/

Just google Bolton Nsa intercepts

My only conclusion though probably half baked.. The reason the Bush Admin wanted to hold onto those intercepts so badly is directly related to the recent wiretapping.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/21/1447236

Peta, Greenpeace, the Catholic Worker.....

and this is just the FBI spying

BushCo would have been able to tap their phones through existing legal channels...

I'll betcha'!!!

have hired Asian interns to perform criminal acts.
The guy from PETA found this laughable. What the FBI is doing is Laughable AND criminal.

And a waste of time in the real hunt for anyone that may be trying to kill Americans!

If there are no checks and balances, no oversight, if all we have is Bush's word that only Al Queda or terrorists were subject to eavesdropping, well, we all know what his word is worth. He's a proven serial LIAR. Which is exactly WHY we need judicial oversight on wiretaps. This "trust me" routine is outrageous.

anyone can be a terrorist - depending on how they define it. PETA, Greenpeace, Catholics.. can all be terrorist in their minds. Anyone who opposes or even questions them can be 'Terrorist'. This is a non-ending war with an endless supply of 'terrorist'. Better than the cold war - which eventually ended.

in on the spying game. Not to mention any other agencies that haven't been outed....
or that i'm not thinking of at this moment...i think there are other agencies as well...

Bush's* shit would be okay with him spying on political foes, or potential political foes of his buddies that might be running for office or trying to get into other positions of influence.

But I've got to know...

Trust me.

just who has been spied on

That's my theory:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=5659751&mesg_id=5659751

I'm not going to let this go!