Bush "backed spying on Americans"
BBC News [UK]
12/16/05
President Bush allowed security agents to eavesdrop on people inside the US without search warrants after 9/11, the New York Times has reported. Under a 2002 presidential order, the National Security Agency has been monitoring international communications of hundreds in the US, the paper says. Before, the NSA had typically limited US surveillance to foreign embassies. Officials cited by the paper said the Bush administration saw the scheme as necessary to disclose terror threats. But some NSA officials familiar with the operation have questioned whether the surveillance of calls and e-mails has crossed constitutional limits on legal searches, according to the Times...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4534488.stm
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
12/16/05
President Bush allowed security agents to eavesdrop on people inside the US without search warrants after 9/11, the New York Times has reported. Under a 2002 presidential order, the National Security Agency has been monitoring international communications of hundreds in the US, the paper says. Before, the NSA had typically limited US surveillance to foreign embassies. Officials cited by the paper said the Bush administration saw the scheme as necessary to disclose terror threats. But some NSA officials familiar with the operation have questioned whether the surveillance of calls and e-mails has crossed constitutional limits on legal searches, according to the Times...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4534488.stm
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 16. Dez, 18:56
