Bush Spy Revelations Anticipated When Obama Is Sworn In

[babylonsister]

Bush Spy Revelations Anticipated When Obama Is Sworn In
By Ryan Singel Email 12 hours ago

The Bush Administration has stonewalled, misled and denied documents to Congress, and subpoenaed the phone records of investigative reporters.


When Barack Obama takes the oath of office on January 20, Americans won't just get a new president; they might finally learn the full extent of George W. Bush's warrantless domestic wiretapping.

Since the New York Times first revealed in 2005 that the NSA was eavesdropping on citizen's overseas phone calls and e-mails, few additional details about the massive "Terrorist Surveillance Program" have emerged. That's because the Bush Administration has stonewalled, misled and denied documents to Congress, and subpoenaed the phone records of the investigative reporters.

Now privacy advocates are hopeful that a President Obama will be more forthcoming with information. But for the quickest and most honest account of Bush's illegal policies, they say don't look to the incoming president. Watch instead for the hidden army of would-be whistle-blowers who've been waiting for Inauguration Day to open the spigot on the truth.

"I'd bet there are a lot of career employees in the intelligence agencies who'll be glad to see Obama take the oath so they can finally speak out against all this illegal spying and get back to their real mission," says Caroline Fredrickson, the ACLU's Washington D.C. legislative director.

New Yorker investigative reporter Seymour Hersh already has a slew of sources waiting to spill the Bush administration's darkest secrets, he said in an interview last month. "You cannot believe how many people have told me to call them on January 20. {They say,} 'You wanna know about abuses and violations? Call me then.'"

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http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2008/11/obama_wiretap

[rurallib]

1. I wonder if we'll ever hear who really outed Valerie Plame or

what Sibel Edmonds had to say or .............

[snappyturtle]

4. Maybe wewould have had impeachment been on the table. I signed a petition

last night for impeachment now before * pardons not only himself but the rest of the nefarious cabal. I assumed he can pardon himself. If not impeachment he should be criminally indicted.

[CoffeeCat]

My guess is that Obama will not deliver...

...the bad news on Bush's abuses. However, he will deliver sweeping changes that will restore
our Constitutional and civil rights--and dismantle whatever perverted aparatus BushCo was using
to spy on all of us. Obama will make it crystal clear that massive abuse was happening at the
behest of the Bush Administration. Obama will do the right thing...in the form of actions.

I also agree that many will spill the beans on what BushCo has been doing. Many will turn on that
disgrace and we'll hear it from them. Obama will be too busy doing the work of "We The People" to
stop and gossip.

I'm so glad that we have our White House back.

[Hubert Flottz]

2. I think the next four years will be one hell of a show to watch...

[TahitiNut]

3. Caution. An 'expectation' is just another word for a premeditated resentment.

President Obama will become the Executive Branch of government on January 20th and adopt the perspectives inherent in that role.

[babylonsister]

5. Whistleblowers could change the equation, I'm thinking. nt