In 2004 and 2005, Bush repeatedly argued that the controversial Patriot Act package of anti-terrorism laws safeguards civil liberties because US authorities still need a warrant to tap telephones in the United States.
"Any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires -- a wiretap requires a court order," he said on April 20, 2004 in Buffalo, New York.
"Nothing has changed, by the way. When we're talking about chasing down terrorists, we're talking about getting a court order before we do so," he added.
Liar! He says right here that he would never do what he was already doing! He was already allowing the NSA to wiretap citizens without a court order! There is no way that they can make this go away! No way!
Here is more.
On April 19, 2004, Bush said the Patriot Act enabled law-enforcement officials to use "roving wiretaps," which are not fixed to a particular telephone, against terrorism, as they had been against organized crime.
"You see, what that meant is if you got a wiretap by court order -- and by the way, everything you hear about requires court order, requires there to be permission from a FISA court, for example," he said in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
Do we really need anymore evidence? No we don't!
If I might be allowed to quote a little Dylan here "The times they are a changin". And it is about damn time!
Really good point about he is his own Smoking Gun.We should start looking for other partiot Act Speeches....
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