Re: Who likes Bush ?

>>Yet more articles in which no accusation or evidence that American 
>>citizens had their communications monitored.

Wooops!

One would think, in this day and age, people would wait a day or so...

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2005/12/they-were-spying-on-purely-domestic.html

 They were spying on "purely domestic communications"
by Joe in DC - 12/20/2005 11:16:00 PM

Okay, so now we learn that there was some "accidental" spying on
communications that took place solely within the U.S.

    A surveillance program approved by President Bush to conduct
eavesdropping without warrants has captured what are purely domestic
communications in some cases, despite a requirement by the White House
that one end of the intercepted conversations take place on foreign
soil, officials say.

    The officials say the National Security Agency's interception of a
small number of communications between people within the United States
was apparently accidental, and was caused by technical glitches at the
National Security Agency in determining whether a communication was in
fact "international." 

Now, how soon before we find out that these weren't accidental or
technical glitches? They've already lied about it:

    Gen. Michael V. Hayden, the former N.S.A. director who is now the
second-ranking intelligence official in the country, was asked at a
White House briefing this week whether there had been any "purely
domestic" intercepts under the program.

    "The authorization given to N.S.A. by the president requires that
one end of these communications has to be outside the United States,"
General Hayden answered. "I can assure you, by the physics of the
intercept, by how we actually conduct our activities, that one end of
these communications are always outside the United States."

    Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales also emphasized that the
order only applied to international communications. "People are
running around saying that the United States is somehow spying on
American citizens calling their neighbors," he said. "Very, very
im****tant to understand that one party to the communication has to be
outside the United States."

Very, very im****ant to understand that Gonzales lies.

NOTE FROM JOHN: Oh, yeah, I feel much better now. Bush isn't spying on
you when you talk to your neighbor, he's spying on you when you call
your friends in France (or Canada). Well I feel much better knowing
that. I mean, who cares if the Bush administration illegally spies on
me, an American citizen, when I dare to call a fur-in country. I must
be some kind of threat, calling those damn foreigners.