Monday, May 15, 2006
A Tangled Web
Oops. The NY Times slipped up and finally admitted that Bush's "domestic surveillance" is strictly international.
But N.S.A. lawyers, trained in the agency's strict rules against domestic spying and reluctant to approve any eavesdropping without warrants, insisted that it should be limited to communications into and out of the country, said the officials, who were granted anonymity to discuss the debate inside the Bush administration late in 2001.So when the media tells us the truth, it's quite reassuring: The Bush Admininstration engaged in an internal "privacy vs security" debate after 9/11 and made a very sane decision to monitor only international phone calls.
The N.S.A.'s position ultimately prevailed.
