Splitting Hairs

The president denied misleading the public during a 2004 appearance in support of the Patriot Act when he said: "Any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires _ a wiretap requires a court order. 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."

Bush said his comments _ two years after approving the NSA program _ applied to roving wiretaps the Patriot Act allows for law enforcement, not the kind of eavesdropping the agency does to collect intelligence.

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The question is why did Bush bypass the Foreign Intellingence Surveillance Court??

This is a group of 11 federal judges that grant warrants in exactly these types of cases that Bush says he is using them.

Bush says timing is an issue. The law allows him 48 hours of surveillance when needed, that allows him time to get court approval.

It is obvious that Bush does not have any evidence to prove that the Americans he is wire tapping are terrorist. Or that the program is casting such a large net that no federal judge would approve the Bush administrations attack on Americans civil liberties.

Are we to believe that the Bush administration knows where terrorist are and they are not picking them up and sending them to torture chambers around the world for questioning?

Also notice the cut on Bush's head. He claims it was from cutting down brush on his ranch, but a source tells me Laura found out she was being wiretapped and slapped the shit out of him and caught him with her ring.