How many people remember back when after the 9/11, 2001 attack when the Bush administration was collecting data to help prevent additional attacks of this type?
The media pounced, fangs bared, teeth flashing with the New York Times leading the charge.
Today, (Dec 16, 2012) we find that the Wall Street Journal breaks a story about Attorney General Eric Holder who:
“In a secret government agreement granted without approval or debate from lawmakers… sweeping new powers to store dossiers on U.S. citizens, even if they are not suspected of a crime, according to a news report.”
The Holder agreement granted the National Counterterrorism Center
sweeping new powers:
“…to copy entire government databases holding information on flight records, casino-employees lists, the names of Americans hosting foreign-exchange students and other data, and to store it for up to five years, even without suspicion that someone in the database has committed a crime….”
This came from wired.com in a story titled: Attorney General Secretly Granted Gov.
Ability to Develop and Store Dossiers on Innocent Americans who credits
the Wall Street Journal for breaking
the story.
The Journal story informs us that:
“The changes also allow databases of U.S. civilian information to be given to foreign governments for analysis of their own. In effect, U.S. and foreign governments would be using the information to look for clues that people might commit future crimes.”
"‘It's breathtaking’ in its scope, said a former senior administration official familiar with the White House debate.”
In another story
titled U.S. Still Mining Terror Data
attributed to the AP and dated 02.23.04 wired.com provides some background on
this.
If we look back to Dec. 24, 2005 in a story by the New York
Times we find people were upset, according to the media, because:
“…the disclosure last week of the N.S.A.'s domestic surveillance program, President Bush and his senior aides have stressed that his executive order allowing eavesdropping without warrants was limited to the monitoring of international phone and e-mail communications involving people with known links to Al Qaeda.”
In another story on Dec. 16, 2005 we find that: Bush
Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts. We find that the people are
upset about a program that:
“Defenders of the program say it has been a critical tool in helping disrupt terrorist plots and prevent attacks inside the United States.”
Of course the theme of the entire thing was more to rip the
Bush Administration than to protect and inform the public. The tax cheat and
liar Tom Daschle stepped up with an op-ed article denying congress had any connections what so ever with all this.
Of course to reinforce the tax cheat’s article the New York
Times runs a story titled: Congress
Never Authorized Spying Effort, Daschle Says.
Of course our old friends at The Telegraph in Macon, Georgia
will not touch this with a ten-foot-pole. You have to remember the policy at
The Telegraph established by President and Publisher George McCanless is to avoid
anything unfavorable or unethical pertaining to a Democrat unless they have
been tried and convicted.
The Telegraph has long ago abandoned any pretense of
journalistic integrity. Their only purpose for existing seems to be to cover up
for the crimes and unethical conduct of the Obama Administration and the
Democrat Party.
Yes, again we can say with a clear conscience; these people
are like a “thief in the night” make their living by deceit and dishonesty.
Have a nice day.
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