Cheney pushed to widen eavesdropping

[ProSense]

Cheney pushed to widen eavesdropping - NY Times

May 13, 2006

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Vice President Dick Cheney argued in the weeks after the September 11 attacks that the National Security Agency should intercept domestic telephone calls and e-mails without warrants as part of its war on terrorism, The New York Times reported in Sunday editions.

Cheney and his top legal adviser, David Addington, believed the Constitution permitted spy agencies to take such sweeping measures to defend the country, The newspaper said, citing two senior intelligence officials who spoke anonymously.

NSA lawyers opposed the move and insisted that any eavesdropping without warrants should be limited to communications into and out of the country, a position that ultimately prevailed, the Times said.

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The newspaper said accounts by the two intelligence officials, as well as others it interviewed, placed Hayden as the man in the middle as President George W. Bush demanded that intelligence agencies act to prevent more attacks.

While intelligence agency lawyers and officials were concerned with avoiding accusations of spying on Americans, Cheney and Addington thought eavesdropping without warrants "could be done and should be done" if people suspected of links to Al Qaeda made calls inside the United States, one of the intelligence officials told the Times.

Another official described the debate as "very healthy," with Cheney's staff "pushing and pushing, and it was up to the NSA lawyers to draw a line and say absolutely not."

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http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/05/13/cheney_pushed_to_widen_eavesdropping___ny_times

WTF? They, Bush, denied it, but now they're saying Cheney thought the Constitution allowed it? Are they serious?


Lies! Lies! Lies!

[Hubert Flottz]

1. Google "David Addington Torture Memo"

This guy got Scooter's job.

[Roland99]

2. Cheney deserves to be treated as a traitor against the US