ACLU to file Freedom of Info Act Request: WHO WAS SPIED ON?

[kpete]

Sunday :: Dec 18, 2005
Letter From California
12/18/05 0553.22 pst
San Jose, California

In the next 28 hours, no more, the ACLU is going to file a freedom of information act request to find out precisely which US citizens Bush authorized the NSA to spy upon. Given the nature of the junta we call an Executive Branch it’s expected they will refuse, a strange reaction to the main thrust of Bush’s argument, really.

If it's all legal, how could it be secret? Of course the war felons have kept secrets “legally” before when Enron Dick came out here and kept his energy meetings secret, but that was an “obscure” policy formulation. Spying on American citizens is very personal. If it’s legal, who was and is being spied upon?
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[ananda]

1. Good q. If it's legal..

.. then why was it kept secret and away from the courts?

Bob Schieffer asked some tough q's of Lindsey Graham
and Joe Biden on Face the Nation this morning.

Even Graham is appalled at *'s arrogance at overstepping
the process... but he's such a GOPer wuss, he said he
really didn't know if it was illegal.

Biden, however, said that he helped write the law and it
was illegal. hehheh

Sue

[TomClash]

2. That's what I'd like to know

I think the answers will be shocking. Why would you bypass a FISA warrant unless you didn't even want the presiding FISA judge to know the identity of the "suspect?" Getting a FISA warrant is easy.