I can’t say that I’m remotely surprised at this news. Congress is hot after the Shrub on news that the NSA has been building a database of every call made by ordinary American citizens.
“We are not mining or trolling through the personal lives of innocent Americans,” Bush said before leaving for a commencement address at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College in Biloxi. (Transcript)The disclosure could complicate Bush’s bid to win confirmation of former NSA director Gen. Michael Hayden as CIA director.
OK, enough already. We have seen the Bush White House attempt to intervene in a lawsuit brought against AT&T for allowing the NSA to load in Narus technology in order to record phone calls. This could complicate Bush’s attempt to have General Michael Hayden installed as the head of the civilian agency, the CIA.
AT&T Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., and BellSouth Corp. telephone companies began turning over records of tens of millions of their customers’ phone calls to the National Security Agency program shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, said USA Today, citing anonymous sources it said had direct knowledge of the arrangement.
Impeach the Leech!
