Bushco will continue to push and undermine rights long established from the Decloration of Independence as the New World Order moves to create a police state. The abuse of power contines as they move there agenda forward.

Date:   2/6/2006 2:00:35 PM ( 18 y ago)

'Wash Post' Reveals: Surveillance Program Has Spied on Thousands, Few of Them Terrorists

Editor and Publisher | February 6 2006

A major, and quite lengthy, report starting on the front page of the Washington Post on Sunday offers new details on the warrantless domestic spying effort, renamed the Terrorist Surveillance Progam by the White House.

The article by Barton Gellman, Dafna Linzer and Carol D. Leonnig, opens:

"Intelligence officers who eavesdropped on thousands of Americans in overseas calls under authority from President Bush have dismissed nearly all of them as potential suspects after hearing nothing pertinent to a terrorist threat, according to accounts from current and former government officials and private-sector sources with knowledge of the technologies in use.

"Bush has recently described the warrantless operation as 'terrorist surveillance' and summed it up by declaring that 'if you're talking to a member of al Qaeda, we want to know why.' But officials conversant with the program said a far more common question for eavesdroppers is whether, not why, a terrorist plotter is on either end of the call. The answer, they said, is usually no.

"Fewer than 10 U.S. citizens or residents a year, according to an authoritative account, have aroused enough suspicion during warrantless eavesdropping to justify interception of their domestic calls, as well. That step still requires a warrant from a federal judge, for which the government must supply evidence of probable cause.

"The Bush administration refuses to say -- in public or in closed session of Congress -- how many Americans in the past four years have had their conversations recorded or their e-mails read by intelligence analysts without court authority. Two knowledgeable sources placed that number in the thousands; one of them, more specific, said about 5,000.

"The program has touched many more Americans than that. Surveillance takes place in several stages, officials said, the earliest by machine. Computer-controlled systems collect and sift basic information about hundreds of thousands of faxes, e-mails and telephone calls into and out of the United States before selecting the ones for scrutiny by human eyes and ears."

http://www.infowars.com/articles/bb/nsa_spying_program_spied_thousands.htm

 

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