Cheney reportedly pushed for eavedropping without warrants

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http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=2603dfc3ff36b3b1

Vice President Dick Cheney is reported to have been the administration's top advocate for intercepting purely domestic telephone calls and e-mails, without warrants, as part of the war on terror after the September 11 attacks.

The New York Times Sunday quotes two senior intelligence officials as saying Cheney and his legal advisor took an aggressive view of the president's ability to take security measures that raised concerns by others about civil liberties.

The officials, who asked not to be named, say lawyers within the National Security Agency did not believe U.S. law allowed the type of surveillance requested by the vice president.

The officials say it was General Michael Hayden, then the head of the NSA, who reached a compromise with the White House allowing warrantless eavesdropping if one party to a conversation was outside the United States.

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Well well what a surprise...

[The Backlash Cometh]

1. Would a good tar and feathering get us in trouble with the secret

service? I mean, jeesh. No wonder Cheney is so corrupt. He KNOWS he can't be touched. Not by the law, not by the people, and not even by God.

[Heidi]

2. Locking.

Duplicate of: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2282031&mesg_id=2282031

Heidi
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