From a National Security Agency slide presentation back in April of 2000, before the Bushies (and 9/11) came to town:
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Slide 4: Slide 5:  Slide 6:  (Text) Legal Protections for U.S. Persons in the U.S.:
Must Be for a Foreign Intelligence Purpose
Probable Cause Standard Applies
Must Be an “Agent of a Foreign Power”
Spy, Terrorist, Saboteur or Someone Who Aides or Abets Them
Requires a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Court Order Question one is whether Congress made statutory changes to the above after 9/11, whether Mr. Bush authorized the NSA to change the procedures without consulting Congress, or whether he simply acted as he wished, without regard to the eixstence of the FISA rules. Question two, and it might be the bigger question, is if the 9/11 attacks have forced us to scrap these basic, common sense protections for American civil liberties and to turn our country essentially over to strongman rule, doesn't that mean the terrorists have won...? View the entire slideshow (in text or graphic version) here. Tags: Politics, News, Republicans, Bush, Government, National Security, Syping
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