Rove Attacks Federal Judge For Ending “Unconstitutional” Wiretaps…

Associated Press August 24, 2006 at 02:05 PM
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Presidential adviser Karl Rove criticized a federal judge's order for an immediate end to the government's warrantless surveillance program, saying Wednesday such a program might have prevented the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Rove said the government should be free to listen if al Qaeda is calling someone within the U.S.

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Warrantless Surveillance: al-Qaeda Calling

Kurt Nimmo

"Presidential adviser Karl Rove criticized a federal judge’s order for an immediate end to the government’s warrantless surveillance program, saying Wednesday such a program might have prevented the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks," reports the Associated Press. "Rove said the government should be free to listen if al-Qaida is calling someone within the U.S." Never mind the mountain of evidence demonstrating nine eleven was an inside job, Rove expects us to believe the phantom al-Qaeda is so stupid, even though it managed to have the U.S. military stand-down, that its operatives would make traceable phone calls to its sleeper cells in the United States. Of course, this is irrelevant, as the NSA has monitored international (and indeed domestic) phone calls for decades. In effect, Bush’s Brain is simply adding yet more spin to the neocon plan to erect a super-snoop apparatus in the United States and make lame apologies for this system by draping the specter of al-Qaeda on it. After all, who can complain about surrendering a few liberties when the end result is nipping al-Qaeda in the bud?...

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