Bush Program Went Beyond Wiretapping

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Bush Program Went Beyond Wiretapping
By PAMELA HESS
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AP
posted: 52 MINUTES AGO

WASHINGTON (July 10) - The Bush administration built an unprecedented surveillance operation to pull in mountains of information far beyond the warrantless wiretapping previously acknowledged, a team of federal inspectors general reported Friday, questioning the legal basis for the effort but shielding almost all details on grounds they're still too secret to reveal.
The report, compiled by five inspectors general, refers to "unprecedented collection activities" by U.S. intelligence agencies under an executive order signed by President George W. Bush after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks

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The report, compiled by five inspectors general indicates otherwise. However we all know you know more than they do.
 
I guess this is what Tutu is talking about. But who is going to believe Cheney?

AP sources: Cheney told CIA not to discuss program
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Jul 11, 9:15 PM (ET)

By PAMELA HESS

WASHINGTON (AP) - Former Vice President Dick Cheney directed the CIA eight years ago not to inform Congress about a nascent counterterrorism program that CIA Director Leon Panetta terminated in June, officials with direct knowledge of the matter said Saturday.

Subsequent CIA directors did not inform Congress because the intelligence-gathering effort had not developed to the point that they believed merited a congressional briefing, said a former intelligence official and another government official familiar with Panetta's June 24 briefing to the House and Senate Intelligence committees.

Panetta did not agree.

Upon learning of the program June 23 from within the CIA, Panetta terminated it and the next day called an emergency meeting with the House and Senate Intelligence committees to inform them of the program and that it was canceled.

Cheney played a central role in overseeing the Bush administration's surveillance program that was the subject of an inspectors general report this past week. That report noted that Cheney's chief of staff, David Addington, personally decided who in Bush's inner circle could even know about the secret program.

But revelations about Cheney's role in making decisions for the CIA on whether to notify Congress came as a surprise to some on the committees, said another government official. All spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the program publicly.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090712/D99CJIEO0.html

The Vice President tells the CIA what to do?
 
uscitizen said:
I guess this is what Tutu is talking about. But who is going to believe Cheney?

AP sources: Cheney told CIA not to discuss program
Email this Story

Jul 11, 9:15 PM (ET)

By PAMELA HESS

WASHINGTON (AP) - Former Vice President Dick Cheney directed the CIA eight years ago not to inform Congress about a nascent counterterrorism program that CIA Director Leon Panetta terminated in June, officials with direct knowledge of the matter said Saturday.

Subsequent CIA directors did not inform Congress because the intelligence-gathering effort had not developed to the point that they believed merited a congressional briefing, said a former intelligence official and another government official familiar with Panetta's June 24 briefing to the House and Senate Intelligence committees.

Panetta did not agree.

Upon learning of the program June 23 from within the CIA, Panetta terminated it and the next day called an emergency meeting with the House and Senate Intelligence committees to inform them of the program and that it was canceled.

Cheney played a central role in overseeing the Bush administration's surveillance program that was the subject of an inspectors general report this past week. That report noted that Cheney's chief of staff, David Addington, personally decided who in Bush's inner circle could even know about the secret program.

But revelations about Cheney's role in making decisions for the CIA on whether to notify Congress came as a surprise to some on the committees, said another government official. All spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the program publicly.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090712/D99CJIEO0.html

The Vice President tells the CIA what to do?
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But unless the Dems start acting like they won the damned elections and exercising their edge, all this is just wasted information. Neocons like the 2 clowns we see here are happy as clams in beer that they "won"....never realizing the yoke they willfully place around their necks.
 
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