Bushco: NSA Domestic Spying Needed After 9/11

Isn't that what they said? Yeah, here's one instance.

In the weeks following September the 11th, I [Dim Son] authorized a terrorist surveillance program to detect and intercept al Qaeda communications involving someone here in the United States. This is a targeted program to intercept communications in which intelligence professionals have reason to believe that at least one person is a member or agent of al Qaeda or a related terrorist organization. The program applies only to international communications. In other words, one end of the communication must be outside the United States. [emphasis mine]

Of course we know the moron was lying through his teeth. And right then, so did the room full of NSA people who knew damn well what they were doing. Many were doing the spying or analysis of the intercepted communications. I must say the idiot-in-chief sure has chutzpa to lie about the NSA's activities to NSA employees.

Then this little tidbit turns up.

The U.S. National Security Agency asked AT&T Inc. to help it set up a domestic call monitoring site seven months before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, lawyers claimed June 23 in court papers filed in New York federal court.

Now if those lawyers are correct, the moron was lying about when he authorized the NSA to spy on Americans. And how does that jive with this?

President Bush signed a secret order in 2002 authorizing the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on U.S. citizens and foreign nationals in the United States, despite previous legal prohibitions against such domestic spying, sources with knowledge of the program said last night.

Methinks Bushco has just done too much lying to keep track of it all. Don't they realize some of us out here have computers and can like, Google this shit?