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Saturday, May 13, 2006

NY Times: Cheney Urged NSA To Intercept Purely Domestic Calls And Emails Without Warrants After 9/11...

Fitz, Fitz where the hell are you, you going to indict this Guy for us, is he A+

New York Times SCOTT SHANE May 13, 2006 at 01:04 PM
READ MORE: George W. Bush, Halliburton, Dick Cheney, 9/11

In the weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, Vice President Dick Cheney and his top legal adviser argued that the National Security Agency should intercept purely domestic telephone calls and e-mail messages without warrants in the hunt for terrorists, according to two senior intelligence officials.

But N.S.A. lawyers, trained in the agency's strict rules against domestic spying and reluctant to approve any warrantless eavesdropping, insisted that it should be limited to communications into and out of the country, said the officials, who were granted anonymity to discuss the debate inside the Bush administration late in 2001.

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