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...track down al-Qaeda terrorists after the 9/11 attacks, was not acting with "specific presidential authorization." Hayden wrote her back that he was acting under the powers granted to his agency in a 1981 Executive Order. In fact, a 2002 investigation by the Joint Intelligence Committees concluded that the NSA was not doing as much as it could have been doing under the law-and that the entire U.S. intelligence community operated in a hypercautious defensive crouch. "Hayden was taking reasonable steps," a former committee member told me. "Our biggest concern was what more he could be doing...
...focus briefly on what the President has done here. Exactly like Nixon before him, Bush has ordered the National Security Agency (NSA) to conduct electronic snooping on communications of various people, including U.S. citizens. That action is unequivocally contrary to the express and implied requirements of federal law that such surveillance of U.S. persons inside the U.S. (regardless of whether their communications are going abroad) must be preceded by a court order. General Michael Hayden, a former director of the NSA and now second in command at the new Directorate of National Intelligence, testified to precisely that point...
Recent revelations about the actions of the Bush Administration in the war on terror have given it the image of a cross between Big Brother and Torquemada. Most recently comes the story of the National Security Agency (NSA) intercepting and monitoring communications from overseas to al-Qaeda operatives in the U.S. This followed reports of "black sites" in Eastern Europe and elsewhere, where high-level al-Qaeda operatives were kept incommunicado and under stress in conditions well below even Motel 6 standards. Which followed reports of various "coercive interrogation" techniques (most notoriously, water boarding, or mock drowning) used...
...city? He was sent by a couple of captured al-Qaeda big shots, Abu Zubaydah and Khalid Sheik Mohammed, whom we interrogated using techniques that Senators have ostentatiously decried and that sparked the McCain amendment. You connect the dots. And then there were the two attacks thwarted by the NSA eavesdropping: a plot to bring down the Brooklyn Bridge and a plot to bomb pubs and train stations in Britain. Historians will have to tell you about the other plots that were stopped. But the former NSA director already said that 'this program has been successful in detecting and preventing...
...know. In this light, let's have the debate. Have we gone too far? Do we want to back off? It is interesting that the Democrats, who have been braying about presidential arrogance, law breaking and even possible impeachment over the NSA spying, dare not suggest that the program be abolished...