Original Post: Former NSA Chief Fingers Cheney in Spygate Conspiracy
by a gnostic
Tue May 09, 2006 at 03:53:54 PM PST
Cheney's got his fat little fingers into every single criminal act coming out of the White House.
The former head of the NSA has belatedly decided to criticize the illegal, unconstitutional NSA wiretapping program, per this Wired article http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70855-0.htm... (scooped from Raw Story). Bobby Ray Inman, President Carter's NSA chief, is one of the highest-ranking former intelligence officials to say this program is illegal, albeit in a spook kind of way. Some excerpts:
> Inman put the White House's reluctance to change the surveillance regulations squarely on the shoulders of Vice President Dick Cheney. .. "The ultimate test," the retired admiral added, will be whether President Bush "walks away from the vice president on this."
> "This activity is not authorized," Inman said...
> The Bush administration "need(s) to get away from the idea that they can continue doing it."
And another great point about NSA snooping on Americans 5 years after 9/11:
> In 1978, Inman helped spearhead the effort to pass the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, which makes it illegal to eavesdrop on American citizens without court approval. Inman said he wouldn't have a problem sidestepping that law -- as a "limited response to an emergency situation," like the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. But nearly five years since those strikes, the NSA is continuing to track phone calls and e-mails without warrants.
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> Inman didn't contest the Bush administration's claim that the FISA courts can't keep up with the NSA's new breed of surveillance. "My problem is not going to Congress to revise the statute to deal with the problems I didn't think of in '78," Inman said. "We can do what the country needs and work within the law."
When the spooks turn on you, your ass is grass. Just look to Ukraine for evidence of that.
Link Here
Tue May 09, 2006 at 03:53:54 PM PST
Cheney's got his fat little fingers into every single criminal act coming out of the White House.
The former head of the NSA has belatedly decided to criticize the illegal, unconstitutional NSA wiretapping program, per this Wired article http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70855-0.htm... (scooped from Raw Story). Bobby Ray Inman, President Carter's NSA chief, is one of the highest-ranking former intelligence officials to say this program is illegal, albeit in a spook kind of way. Some excerpts:
> Inman put the White House's reluctance to change the surveillance regulations squarely on the shoulders of Vice President Dick Cheney. .. "The ultimate test," the retired admiral added, will be whether President Bush "walks away from the vice president on this."
> "This activity is not authorized," Inman said...
> The Bush administration "need(s) to get away from the idea that they can continue doing it."
And another great point about NSA snooping on Americans 5 years after 9/11:
> In 1978, Inman helped spearhead the effort to pass the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, which makes it illegal to eavesdrop on American citizens without court approval. Inman said he wouldn't have a problem sidestepping that law -- as a "limited response to an emergency situation," like the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. But nearly five years since those strikes, the NSA is continuing to track phone calls and e-mails without warrants.
>
> Inman didn't contest the Bush administration's claim that the FISA courts can't keep up with the NSA's new breed of surveillance. "My problem is not going to Congress to revise the statute to deal with the problems I didn't think of in '78," Inman said. "We can do what the country needs and work within the law."
When the spooks turn on you, your ass is grass. Just look to Ukraine for evidence of that.
Link Here
posted by Kangaroo Brisbane Australia at 11:21 PM
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