AFP: For years, Bush said court orders required for spying >>>

[Stephanie]

More LIES from George W. Bush. And delivered in that pedantic, "let me explain something to you" way he has. Nauseating.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051220/pl_afp/usattacksintelligence_051220175012

For years, Bush said court orders required for spying

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In 2004 and 2005, Bush repeatedly argued that the controversial Patriot Act package of anti-terrorism laws safeguards civil liberties because US authorities still need a warrant to tap telephones in the United States.

"Any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires -- a wiretap requires a court order," he said on April 20, 2004 in Buffalo, New York.

"Nothing has changed, by the way. When we're talking about chasing down terrorists, we're talking about getting a court order before we do so," he added.

On April 19, 2004, Bush said the Patriot Act enabled law-enforcement officials to use "roving wiretaps," which are not fixed to a particular telephone, against terrorism, as they had been against organized crime.

"You see, what that meant is if you got a wiretap by court order -- and by the way, everything you hear about requires court order, requires there to be permission from a FISA court, for example," he said in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

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"Law enforcement officers need a federal judge's permission to wiretap a foreign terrorist's phone, a federal judge's permission to track his calls, or a federal judge's permission to search his property," he said in June.

"Officers must meet strict standards to use any of these tools. And these standards are fully consistent with the Constitution of the United States," he added in remarks at the Ohio State Highway Patrol Academy.

US President George W. Bush waves to the audience prior to speaking at the Waukesha County Exposition Center to kick off a one day bus trip through Wisconsin 14 July 2004 in Waukesha County, Wisconsin. 'A couple of things that are very important for you to understand about the Patriot Act. First of all, any action that takes place by law enforcement requires a court order,' he said, 14 July 2004 in Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin.(AFP/File/Stephen Jaffe)

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