For Years Bush Said Court Orders Required for Spying.

[Jade Fox]

Don't know if this has been posted before, but it seems time to reacquaint ourselves with just how often Bush has specifically said his administration was going through legal channels for wiretapping. He was almost compulsive about it, which should have been a tipoff that he was lying!


http://asia.news.yahoo.com/051220/afp/051220194444top.html

In 2004 and 2005, Bush repeatedly argued that the controversial Patriot Act package of anti-terrorism laws safeguards civil liberties because US authorities still need a warrant to tap telephones in the United States.

"Any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires -- a wiretap requires a court order," he said on April 20, 2004 in Buffalo, New York.

"Nothing has changed, by the way. When we're talking about chasing down terrorists, we're talking about getting a court order before we do so," he added.

On April 19, 2004, Bush said the Patriot Act enabled law-enforcement officials to use "roving wiretaps," which are not fixed to a particular telephone, against terrorism, as they had been against organized crime.

"You see, what that meant is if you got a wiretap by court order -- and by the way, everything you hear about requires court order, requires there to be permission from a FISA court, for example," he said in Hershey, Pennsylvania

[WhereIsMyFreedom]

1. No doubt about it

Bush lied and lied and lied to the people. We impeached the last President because he lied to the people about a blow job. Our current pResident lies to start a war, lies about breaking the law, lies every damn time he opens his mouth! I get so mad at all the hypocrisy. :mad:

[Spinzonner]

2. So, we're going to require Bush to take an oath of truth

before every press conference abd interview ?