PELOSI PART OF COVER-UP OF NSA ILLEGAL SPYING

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RAY MCGOVERN, CONSORTIUM NEWS - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has admitted
knowing for several years about the Bush administration's eavesdropping
on Americans without a court warrant. She said she was briefed on it
when she was ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee. But
was she told that the illegal surveillance began well before 9/11?

Referring to her briefing in an apologia-sans-apology Washington Post
op-ed on Jan. 15, 2006, she wrote: "This is how I came to be informed of
President Bush's authorization for the NSA to conduct certain types of
surveillance."

Demonstrating her unconstitutionally subservient attitude toward the
Executive Branch, Pelosi wrote:

"But when the administration notifies Congress in this manner, it is not
seeking approval. There is a clear expectation that the information will
be shared by no one, including other members of the intelligence
committees. As a result, only a few members of Congress were aware of
the president's surveillance program, and they were constrained from
discussing it more widely.". . .

Now we learn that it is even worse. The eavesdropping abuses began as
soon as the Bush administration came into office -  well before 9/11.

In recent days, thanks to an enterprising reporter for the Rocky
Mountain News, we learned that the president, vice president, and CIA
director-not to mention the credulous crowd around Nancy Pelosi-have all
been regurgitating a king-sized whopper aimed at providing
"justification" for the National Security Agency program.

http://consortiumnews.com/2007/101407a.html

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