Dear members of the press,
Please stop repeating the administration's lies about domestic spying as fact.
AP:
Bush says the House version "would cause us to lose vital intelligence on terrorist threats" and would not give liability protection against lawsuits to telecommunications companies that cooperated with the government after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
NYT:
Some 40 lawsuits are pending in federal courts, charging that by cooperating with the eavesdropping program put in place after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the phone companies violated their responsibilities to customers and federal privacy laws.
AP:
Bush opposes it in part because it doesn't provide full, retroactive legal protection to telecommunications companies that helped the government eavesdrop on their customers without court permission after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
That bold part -- that part of the "reporting" that doesn't have quotation marks around it and doesn't have any correcting remarks after it and doesn't have a bullshit flag preceding it -- is a lie. How is it a lie? Let us count the ways.
Former chief executive Joseph P. Nacchio, convicted in April of 19 counts of insider trading, said the NSA approached Qwest more than six months before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, according to court documents unsealed in Denver this week. [link]
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. [link]
Everytime you repeat the lie that domestic spying began "after the Sept. 11th attacks," a data miner in some basement at the NSA gets his wings.
Really, though. You would think that whole WMD in Iraq thing would have taught you guys a lesson about repeating administration lies as fact. Try harder to stick to the truth next time, not the spin. Thanks!
hugs and kisses,
georgia