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Court Says Bush Illegally Wiretapped Two Americans

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23 pointsjeromec11 comments

Actually it says the NSA illegally wiretapped a charity and two individuals:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/01/us/01nsa.html

Bush is not involved in the lawsuit. He simply authorized the program. The title makes it sound as if he is personally affected by the decision.

Not that these don't need to be discussed, but personally, I'll rather keep such topics out of HN.

Slashdot and perhaps Digg etc. are more appropriate forums for discussing such topics.

Just IMHO...

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Thanks for correcting me and pointing me to that. It was a newbie, when it comes to "flag", mistake.

I thought about the topic before posting, but I thought it was a dangerous sort of hacking.

Interesting to choose a subject line pointed @ Bush, while Obama has had ample time to repeal the offending program, and has chosen not to. . .

This isn't democrat vs. republican, this is about citizen vs. gov't.

The title is correct, the Obama administration did not wiretap these lawyers, the Bush one did.

Technically you're spot on and I up-voted your comment -

But something feels sour about that headline to me, it's finger pointing at an individual which smokescreens the fact that the same agency / laws / etc are still in place that allowed for the abuse to happen to begin with.

Only 2?

The allegations were initially based on a classified document the government accidentally mailed to the former Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation lawyers.

The classified document saw the light of day by accident. There was also a whistle blower for the Folsom St. wiretap, where in 2003 AT&T granted the NSA complete access to all voice and data communications going through the building at 611 Folsom Street in San Francisco. http://libertyalabama.com/loeverate/posts/23-AT-T-Whistleblo...

I can only wonder how much we haven't found out about.

You're soaking in it.

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