It appears that more and more Democrats in Congress was telling the NSA their wiretapping program was not legal. WASHINGTON – The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee told President Bush Wednesday that the White House broke the law by withholding information from the full congressional oversight committees about a new domestic surveillance program. […]
More On Bush's Unchecked Powers
In keeping the NSA spying story alive, the New York Times gives us a more detailed look today into how the NSA assumed their powers: WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 – The National Security Agency acted on its own authority, without a formal directive from President Bush, to expand its domestic surveillance operations in the weeks after […]