Bush Era Domestic Spying Was Too Secret: Report

Behold your freedom; it is a mere illusion. Keeping you safe from terrorists? "Most of the intelligence leads generated under what was known as the "President's Surveillance Program" did not have any connection to terrorism.." You should wonder exactly how far reaching your government's surveillance went and is still going.. and for what.

Yeah, we the people, gave him that right after 911...

It seems I was the only one to read the anti-terrorist legislation before we voted on it... I laughed to think that Washington could design such a totalitarian set of laws and think that ANYONE would actually vote for it...

But vote we did...

We gave them the right to tap our phones, read our eMail, everything short of grabbing our written mail was in that document and everyone voted for it... I was floored!!!

Then, what, 5 years later, people start screaming invasion of privacy!?!

They say if you're not going to vote, then keep your political mouth shut...

I say if you're not going to understand what you're voting for, before you vote... DON'T VOTE!!!

When are they going to change this moron with WAR CRIMES and TREASON. 8 years of lies and incompetent leadership. Worst President in history of USA.

I do not have a problem with this. go ahead. spy on me. I think you'll find that I like Burger King over McDonalds, Pepsi over Coke and buy the cheapest tennis shoes I can get.

oh, oh. who's spying? this site, that site, opinion polls, nielson. everyone is spying on you. anyone that wants to sell you something. it's all one big conspiracy, lol

ok, I'll worry about this tomorrow. I'm going out to my garden. if you want to find me, just look me up on google earth

I oftened wondered why Bush was re elected when remembering that incopetent boob sitting in that chair at the elementary school when told of 911. He had the look on his face as if to say,(cant do anything now).Thats what happens when you elect a rich,spoiled draft dodging bum.

DAVID. You moron. "Worst President in history of USA"? Obamarxist makes Bush look like a choir boy.

Bush was damned if he did damned if he didn't. He did what he thought was right and justified to protect us from further attacks. Driveling libtards are exponentially too stupid to get this. I have ZERO problem with being "surveyed". Go ahead. I have NOTHING to hide, I'm not a terrorist, and if theses tactics keep us safer... go for it.

Conventional traditional American laws, do not apply to the f***ed up world we are in, and the new "breed" of enemy we are dealing with libtards. That's the way it is.

"Those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither." - Benjamin Franklin

CR8Z13. Al Queida (not sure if I spelled that right) and the Taliban (just to name a couple) did not exist in Ben's day. Nor could he have forseen it.

no bamie, doesn't matter. We either have values and uphold them, or we don't. it's as true now as it was 200 years ago.

(1) Benjamin Franklin stated: `Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.'.
(2) The First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution were established to protect the civil rights and liberties of all Americans in perpetuity.
(3) Federal policies adopted since September 11, 2001, including provisions in the USA PATRIOT Act (Public Law 107-56) The Illegal NSA Spying program, and related executive orders, regulations, and actions threaten fundamental rights and liberties, including the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution by--
(A) authorizing the indefinite incarceration of noncitizens based on mere suspicion, and the indefinite incarceration of citizens designated by the President as `enemy combatants' without access to counsel or meaningful recourse to the Federal courts.
(con't)

If you have nothing to hide, then you have nothing to worry about right?

Well if that's the case, then maybe it's time for the release the records of The Bush Administration's secret energy task force, and the documents on pre 9/11 intel and Katrina preparedness, and tell us how many times Ken Lay and Jack Abramoff visited The Oval Office, and they could let us know who's idea it was to leak Valerie Plame's name and why, and while they're at it, they could come clean on Tourture, and the Global Network of Secret Prisons, and the no bid contracts for Haliburton, and the reasons behind illegally spying on millions of innocent Americans in clear violation of FISA, and the lies they told to justify The War in Iraq, and the billions of dollars that simply vanished in Iraq, they could release the records from the first Bush Administration, the ones that Junior sealed on his first day in office.
If they have nothing to hide.....

I prefer the quote (inaccurately I think) attributed to Abraham Lincoln --

"The constitution is not a suicide pact"

I'm not mad at Bush for doing this. I'm mad at the Islamic terrorists that forced him to do this.

Democracy has quietly been taken away from us.
Under Bush we became a Dictatorship, where our President can choose which laws he cares to follow.
He could spy on his political rivals, you, and your family without a warrant.
He could arrest and torture you, without a trial, for as long as he wanted.
He could stop the courts from trying cases in which he broke the law.

All you so called patriots (read partisans) who support what The Bush Administration did to our democracy are truly pathetic.
You're so blinded by your partisan hatred, that you've lost all objectivity.

the united states government is a joke, including any one person that holds the president's office. they are for themselves not for the whole country they are more concerned with giving tax breaks to the wealthy businesses and others of their kind.

Bush ain't got nothing on King Obama, but when it all comes down to what King Obma is doing the media & his followers will say oh he was just doing whats best for us slaves.

Really? Is anyone surprised? Bush was a Republican by party but a progressive by action. He's the perfect example of another Ivy League (Yale) idiot and the need for a 3rd party in this country.

W.Bush was one of the worst presidents in the history of our country, we will be working on cleaning up the messess he made for years to come. Everything he did in his life he failed at, and his presidency is his worse failure yet.

This guy stepped all over the Constitution and I still don't like him. Many Americans lives have been lost because he invented a bogus War to rape the people of America out of their rights. If anybody deserves to be charged with a crime it is this man.

History will not be kind to Bush

Expect more Conservative Bashing articles to cover for Obama's miserable failures. It is going to be ramped up to cover for the hemoraging of jobs brought on because of the so-called stimulus.

If you have nothing to hide, no worries right? Why did Bush fight the creation of the 9/11 Commission for almost a year, then appointed Henry Kissinger the original Chairman? He then fought the WTC families for almost a month to remove him, when he finally gave in and made Keane the chairman.
Why after all that, did he still fight tooth and nail, I'm talking Federal injunctions, the works, so that he would not have to testify? Only until the Commission agreed to his conditions did he testify. They were as follows:
1.) Only WITH Cheney, NOT ALONE
2.) Closed door session, no recordings, only the Commission members allowed to hear his testimony
3.) Not under oath

Seems like alot of trouble for somebody who has nothing to hide. Utterly shameful if you ask me.

To give you some perspective it took 7 days following Pearl Harbor for a commission to be formed. In all there were 8 investigations.

You got that right Jim. It seems any time Obama errs (which is often) the media comes out with a Bush-bashing article or some dug up article from Iraq or Afghan about troops being mean to the terrorists.

Distraction Sean. Obama klan of liberal brown shirts trot this out to distract drones like Mamma Kass. They can keep the haters in an uproar so they are not watching their money and the "life liberty and pursuit of happiness" swirl down the collective toilet.

Blame Bush non-story that says the Obama administration wants the same powers of intelligence.

"They questioned the legal basis for the effort but shielded almost all details on grounds they're still too secret to reveal."

"House Democrats are pressing for legislation that would expand congressional access to secret intelligence briefings, but the White House has threatened to veto it."

Oh where is momma Kass, oh where or where can see be?

Type your liberal trash and run away.

Coward. Did you get lost on an elevator going to you kitchen to make that sandwich I suggested?

Why is your profile closes coward? Mine is open, I've got nothing to hide. I've got you narrowed down to either Kalifornia or the North East, you seem to be a product of that part of the country. Show yourself, come on liberal where are you?

Are you getting your next talking point from Keith Olberman? CNN? MSNBC? Or are you trying to channel Karl Marx?

Well, when ever you want to throw down, I'm here.

Thank you George Bush for keeping me and my family safe.
Thank you for taking down a dictator they killed his citizenry
Thank you for holding to your principals.
Thank you for having morals.
Thank you for taking the high road despite the attacks personally and professionally.
Thank your class and decorum.
Despite the lies them media spins, despite the blame the Obama Admin pushed off on you, rest assured I know that you did what you thought was right. In the end, you are by far a better man ton your worst day than Obama will be on his best.

Thank you GWB, thank you.

If this was such a bad thing (and I didn't agree with it), why hasn't all this spying been stopped since Obama is in the white house?

Bluster and spew, Momma Kass. All that self righteous pseudo intellectualism. All those high sounding words to hide behind. What a joke you are.
Spew statements, run away. Post a few replies and run away. What a sad pathetic liberal, you are.

Go back to Berkley

The Cybersecurity Act of 2009:

You’ll notice a familiar name as one of the co-sponsors of this monstrosity—Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia. Yes, Sen. Rockefeller is a member of that wonderful banking dynasty that gave us the finest institution ever created on the planet: The Federal Reserve System. In step with his ancestors, Sen. Rockefeller is attempting to give us yet another Rockefeller/Government creation to make our lives even more miserable—as if the ever-dwindling purchasing power of the Federal Reserve Notes that Great Grandpa John D. Rockefeller foisted on us (in cahoots, of course, with the Morgans and Warburgs) isn’t enough.