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...show "probable cause" to a secret court before they attached bugs to a suspect's phone lines. All indications are that, under the post-9/11 program, a softer legal trigger was used. How much softer? That's an explosive legal and political mystery. Michael Hayden, the former NSA head who has taken a public role in defending the program but who is not a lawyer, has implied that the NSA officers who were manning the spotter desks had to have a reason to believe that a terrorist plot might be in the works. But Gonzales, who will no doubt...
...calls "operational details." The President tried to argue the facts a bit today, suggesting almost obliquely that his administration's no-quarter prosecution of the war on terror helped foil a plot on a Los Angeles skyscraper. But he stopped short of saying the breakthrough was based on the NSA snooping. The facts of the case, so far at least, remain unargued in public...
...Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Chertoff recently came under fire after the National Security Agency’s secret domestic spying program was exposed by The New York Times in December. As chief of DHS, he is responsible for obtaining and using the intelligence gathered by the NSA. Chertoff, who has vigorously defended the spying program in interviews, has been named as one of the defendants in a lawsuit brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights challenging the legality of the program. BACK IN CAMBRIDGE But at Harvard in 1975, Chertoff’s main concern was to defend individual...
...Questions about the operational specifics of the NSA program bounced off Gonzales all day-"what happens to the data?", "how long is it retained?"-none of which Gonzales would answer. "An open discussion of the operational details would put the lives of Americans at risk," he claimed...
...front row of the spectator's gallery, Richard Flesher, a retired social studies teacher from Hinsdale, Ill., had the same questions. After a recent trip to the Middle East, Flesher was curious if any of his phone calls or emails to the region are now in the NSA's database and sent a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to find out. The NSA responded that they could neither confirm nor deny that they intercepted copies of his communications. He's written an appeal and is still waiting for an answer. "It's not about getting money," said Flesher, leaning...