The University of California could save money by firing that fascist traitor John Yoo

[tj2001]

Let him sue.


Report: Bush surveillance program was massive'
By PAMELA HESS, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON – The Bush administration built an unprecedented surveillance operation to pull in mountains of information far beyond the warrantless wiretapping previously acknowledged, a team of federal inspectors general reported Friday...

The report says too few relevant officials knew of the size and depth of the program, let alone signed off on it. They particularly criticize John Yoo, a deputy assistant attorney general who wrote legal memos undergirding the policy.... Most of the intelligence leads generated under what was known as the "President's Surveillance Program" did not have any connection to terrorism, the report said.

The report says Yoo's analysis approving the program ignored a law designed to restrict the government's authority to conduct electronic surveillance during wartime, and did so without fully notifying Congress. And it said flaws in Yoo's memos later presented "a serious impediment" to recertifying the program.

Yoo insisted that the president's wiretapping program had only to comply with Fourth Amendment protections against search and seizure — but the report said Yoo ignored the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act, which had previously overseen federal national security surveillance.

"The notion that basically one person at the Justice Department, John Yoo, and Hayden and the vice president's office were running a program around the laws that Congress passed, including a reinterpretation of the Fourth Amendment, is mind boggling," Harman said.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090711/ap_on_go_co/us_domestic_surveillance

[rwheeler31]

1. Who signs up for his classes, we need to know.

[Ernesto]

2. AGREEDED............nt