Civil Rights
Jul. 15, 2009
Obama Should Seize on New Revelations of Illegal Spying
A new report details unprecedented surveillance by Bush officials far beyond warrantless wiretapping, writes Stephen F. Rohde.
Stephen F. Rohde
Email: rohdevictr@aol.com
Stephen is a retired civil liberties lawyer and contributor to the Los Angeles Review of Books, is author of American Words for Freedom and Freedom of Assembly.
For the first time, we are learning that the Bush administration built an unprecedented surveillance operation to collect vast amounts of information from Americans far beyond the warrantless wiretapping previously acknowledged, according to a new report released last Friday by five inspectors general from the Justice Department, CIA, Pentagon, National Security Agency and the director of National Intelligence.
Now that these revelations have been made public, the Obama administra...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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