The Bush administration appears to have violated the National Security Act by limiting its briefings about a warrantless domestic eavesdropping program to congressional leaders, according to a memo from Congress's research arm released yesterday.
The Congressional Research Service opinion said that the amended 1947 law requires President Bush to keep all members of the House and Senate intelligence committees "fully and currently informed" of such intelligence activities as the domestic surveillance effort.
Aha!
The only exception in the law applies to covert actions, Cumming found, and those programs must be reported to the "Gang of Eight," which includes House and Senate leaders in addition to heads of the intelligence panels. The administration can also withhold some operational details in rare circumstances, but that does not apply to the existence of entire programs, he wrote.
Keep on paying attention gentle reader. I believe that the more we learn about this "data mining" operation the more we will understand just how nakedly this administration abused our civil rights.
I am beginning to feel like the coed who wakes up after drinking a beer spiked with GHB and finds her panties on the floor and her bra missing.
"He just seemed so nice!"
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