DoJ Legal Counsel Contradicts Gonzales, Suggests Other Spying Programs Exist

[kpete]

DoJ Legal Counsel Contradicts Gonzales, Suggests Other Spying Programs Exist

The House Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution held a hearing on Thursday to examine the administration’s specious arguments about the legal authority it has asserted to conduct warrantless wiretapping of Americans.

Steven Bradbury, the principal deputy assistant attorney general and the head of the Office of Legal Counsel, testified before the committee. Under questioning from Rep. Mel Watt (D-NC), Bradbury claimed that former Attorney General John Ashcroft’s reservations about signing onto the White House’s domestic spying efforts in 2004 were actually in reference to a different spying program than the one President Bush has revealed:

REP. WATT: Mr. Bradbury, did former Attorney General Ashcroft express reservations, legal reservation about some aspect — whatever they were; I’m not even going to get into that — of the surveillance program?

MR. BRADBURY: Congressman, the attorney general has indicated that, as you might expect with complicated national security matters, disagreements arose about aspects of intelligence activities, the details of operations and intelligence activities that are not public, that remain highly classified –

REP. WATT: I’m not asking you to make anything public. I’m asking you, does that mean that the former attorney general had some reservations about — legal reservations about some aspects of the program, Mr. Bradbury?

MR. BRADBURY: Well, all I’ll say is what the attorney general has said, which is that disagreements arose, disagreements were addressed and resolved; however, those disagreements did not — were not about the particular activities that the president has publicly described, that we have termed the Terrorist Surveillance Program.

more at:
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/09/bradbury-spying/

[formercia]

1. Limited hang out

Junior lets us peek in one pocket then tells us it's the only one he has. No surprise here. I've been under surveillance for decades and i'm sure there's no warrant attached.

[L. Coyote]

2. NGIA (NGA) collecting data, 133 U.S. cities, ID everyone, nationality, political affiliations

Are your tax dollars working overtime, identifying your political affiliations?

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DIA SPYING: NGIA collecting data, 133 U.S. cities, ID everyone, nationality, political affiliations
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x983282

Campaign 2004: Were Bush / Cheney / NSA illegal wiretaps spying on Dems?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x925247

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

3. K&R nt

[HereSince1628]

4. Shell game, def 1 a common form of gambling involving 3 walnut

shells and one pea. The object being to identify the shell covering the pea after the shells are shuffled on a table.

def 2. a form of hiding ballistic US missles also known as MX mobile missle. Missles were shuffled along a circular trackway and placed in one of many possible bunkers. The object was to increase uncertainty of the weapons location and thereby the cost to the enemy of eliminating launching sites by first strike.

def 3. a form of administrative deceit implemented by the Cheney administration to increase the cost of Congressional oversight in terms of effort, money and time. In the early 21st century this practice effectively allowed the paranoid Neoconservative administration to operate with no accountability.

[hootinholler]

5. The WH has always referred to programs in the plural.

Nice to have testimonial confirmation.

When will they do something about it?

-Hoot

[L. Coyote]

6. K&R

[bobthedrummer]

7. ...---...

[bobthedrummer]

8. 509,000 mostly domestic names on another FBI list of terrorists

thanks to the pioneering efforts of John Edgar and his everloving Clyde:argh:

A damn RW Republican politburo/gestapo within a totally corrupted DoJ-and the building bears the name of John Edgar Hoover:puke: