A day in the life of Tom Daschle : September 18, 2001.

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The same day the congressional resolution passed....September 18, 20001, changed at the last minute by Daschle to keep them from attacking Americans in our own country.... . That same day, Tom Daschle was targeted as a victim of a domestic terrorist attack, an anthrax letter was dropped in a mailbox for him.

Does anyone think the government conducted one lousy unauthorized wiretap investigating the anthrax letters?



"The congressional resolution of Sept. 18, 2001, formally titled "Authorization for the Use of Military Force," made no reference to surveillance or to the president's intelligence-gathering powers, and the Bush administration made no public claim of new authority until news accounts disclosed the secret NSA operation.

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Daschle's article reveals an important new episode in the resolution's legislative history.

As drafted, and as finally passed, the resolution authorized the president "to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations or persons" who "planned, authorized, committed or aided" the Sept. 11 attacks.

"Literally minutes before the Senate cast its vote, the administration sought to add the words 'in the United States and' after 'appropriate force' in the agreed-upon text," Daschle wrote. "This last-minute change would have given the president broad authority to exercise expansive powers not just overseas -- where we all understood he wanted authority to act -- but right here in the United States, potentially against American citizens. I could see no justification for Congress to accede to this extraordinary request for additional authority. I refused.""

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/22/AR2005122202119.html?nav=rss_politics/administration


Letter sent to Daschle (postmarked Sept 18) tests positive for anthrax

"Washington - A letter sent to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle tested positive for anthrax on Monday as the bioterrorism scare rattling the nation reached the halls of Congress.In Trenton, N.J.,

Postal Inspector Tony Esposito and FBI officials said the letter to Daschle was postmarked in Trenton on Sept. 18, the same date and postmark on a letter that infected an NBC employee in New York last week."

http://www.jsonline.com/news/attack/oct01/anthrax-congress101501.asp

on edit: big credit to Madison Progressive for noticing 9/18.