It's makes you wonder since the American people have been snooped by the Bush Adminstration. Certainly, if the people were spied on, the Senate and Congress were trolled. The real question is which Senators and Congress were spied on and what secrets does Bush know.
Following Wednesday's allegation by the former National Security Agency analyst that President Bush's warrantless wiretapping program had spied on everyone, contrary to what the administration had claimed, Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) told MSNBC's Chris Matthews on Thursday that he was "quite prepared to believe" the allegations.
Make that, Senators too?
On July 9, 2008, the US Senate passed a bill expanding legal authority for electronic wiretaps by spy agencies, handing victory to President George W. Bush after a standoff over anti-terror strategy.
Then-Senator Obama, along with newly appointed Secretary of State Clinton, said they would support Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn) in filibustering the GOP effort, specifically when it came to immunity for the private telecom companies which allowed the NSA to conduct warrantless spying.Obama ultimately "compromised," saying: "The President's illegal program of warrantless surveillance will be over.
It restores FISA and existing criminal wiretap statutes as the exclusive means to conduct surveillance – making it clear that the President cannot circumvent the law and disregard the civil liberties of the American people."
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