So this is
Bush's latest story on his breaking the law:
President Bush on Sunday strongly defended his domestic spying program, saying it's a limited initiative that tracks only incoming calls to the United States. "It[] seems logical to me that if we know there's a phone number associated with al-Qaida or an al-Qaida affiliate and they're making phone calls, it makes sense to find out why," Bush said. "They attacked us before, they'll attack us again."
Well duh Mr. President. Of course we should find out. That's your fucking job. Then he says:
Asked how he responds to Americans worried about violations of their privacy, he responded, "If somebody from al-Qaida is calling you, we'd like to know why." The president said that he is conscious of people's civil liberties. "This is a limited program designed to prevent attacks on the United States of America and, I repeat, limited," he said. "I think most Americans understand the need to find out what the enemy's thinking."
No shit Sherlock. Are you people so incompetent that you can't follow simple procedures? Is telling a judge that you are intercepting calls from Al Qaida so hard? You think they are gonna say no?
Bush, who called the program "vital and necessary," dodged a question about whether he was aware of any resistance to the program at high levels of his administration and how that might have influenced his decision to approve it.
That means he was aware that his program was against the law and he did it anyway.
The president was asked whether he misled the American people in 2004 when, during an event promoting the Patriot Act, he said that any wiretapping required a court order and that nothing had changed. He made the statement more than two years after he approved the NSA program. "I was talking about roving wiretaps, I believe, involving the Patriot Act," Bush said. "This is different from the NSA program."
Ah ah ah, you're lying again Mr. President. You said that it was surveillances approved through the FISA court. You weren't talking about just roving wiretaps.
And that's the point isn't it? BushCo has done nothing but lie about this whole thing.
Update [2006-1-1 15:26:34 by Armando]: Here is the
Bush Statement from April 2004:
. . . For years, law enforcement used so-called roving wire taps to investigate organized crime. You see, what that meant is if you got a wire tap 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.