Illegal, warrantless spying on Americans? They were in "hot pursuit"

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"The NSA's terrorist surveillance program is targeted at al Qaeda communications coming into or going out of the United States. It is a limited, hot pursuit effort by our intelligence community to detect and prevent attacks.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/01/20060122.html


Hot pursuit:

September 29, 2001

Bush, in remarks to reporters, said, "Make no mistake about it, we're in hot pursuit of terrorists." He did little to flesh out his remark, but added that he understood it was "very hard to fight a guerrilla war with conventional forces." At another point, he added, "There may or may not be a conventional component" to the war on terrorism. (http://www.avpress.com/n/sp/attack/sty133.hts)


Yet another flash term that the White House pulled from their initial excuses for Bush's grab for power that he assumed Congress gave him after 9-11. He wants to keep the imagery of the attacks in front of us as he justifies his domestic spying campaign."

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1. Then get your ass to court

and get a damn warrant !!!!!!!

Geez.. is there a single law that these f-heads won't break ???

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2. The Bush doctrine

This (bold?) new program is, in the words of former Secretary of State George Shultz, "not just hot pursuit but hot pre-emption." Or, as President Bush put it plainly: "We must take the battle to the enemy . . . confront the worst threats before they emerge."

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/opinion/articles/020701/archive_021731.htm


Quiz: What folksy phrase has Bush not used in talking about the war on terrorism?

a) "We will smoke 'em out"
b) "We're in hot pursuit"
c) "We will rid the world of the evildoers."
d) "We will rid the world of major league a--holes."

http://www.alternet.org/story/12247/

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3. in a potential U-turn by the Bush administration

in a potential U-turn by the Bush administration, Hayden, White House senior counselor Dan Bartlett and White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan cracked the door for the first time to the White House asking Congress to revise the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to accommodate "hot pursuit" of fleeting communications by suspected members of al-Qaida -- the ones that are now being targeted by the NSA program without court approval.

http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/local/states/california/13698129.htm




(thanks kpete- http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x224911)