Why did Bush WIRE TAP AMERICANS?

Question

and claim he was following the law

a ******** is not equal = to

Failed bush wars

Answer 1

To attack and discredit the Democrat party like Richard Nixon did, it's a no brainer.

Answer 2

So what, your speech is protected by the 1st amendment so anything (anything not illegal that is) is protected. You're not going to be arrested for criticizing the Government, so I don't see the big deal about it. And the only people getting tapped are those making calls to "hot spots" around the world. So unless you regularly call Uncle Hasim in Algeria, then you have nothing to worry about.

Answer 3

He did it in order to protect the American people from the dangers of terrorism. This happened after 9/11 occured. Americans were so scared, blinded, and vulnerable that they did not realize that they were giving up their privacy. They let the government pass the Patriot Act.

Personally, I am against this act. When it was being passed, I tried inquiring more about it and sought some way to oppose it. However, everyone I talked to was so SCARED by the attacks on 9/11, they blindedly favored this Act. Americans have no one to blame but themselves.

Answer 4

basically simply by fact he did no longer promote the reality does no longer advise it fairly is unlawful. in actual actuality the NSA is almost a good sized digital communications vacuum purifier, it sucks in each and every thing, analyzes, and shops it. frequently conversing they are prohibited from appearing relatives surveillance, yet once you utilize any of fairly some key words or are conversing to somebody foreign places fantastically if the different celebration is below surveillance you will possibly be monitored. additionally their is a secret court, that themes warrants to NSA for particular relatives surveillance courses, inspite of the undeniable fact that the NSA is given some selection to preform surveillance for a constrained time with out first procuring a warrant.

Answer 5

Yep. Him, Dick and Condie liked to listen to tapes of me talking to my wife about what to by at Von's on the way home, while we were on our cell phones, to unwind after a long day at the White House thinking up ways to keep the common person down....

Do you people ever stop to listen to what you say????

Do all of you still think the movie "Men in Black" was a documentary???
And this is the group I get to count on for my Social Security when I retire.......After Clinton emptied the surplus to so called "Balance the Budget".

Answer 6

Because he was following the law. The PATRIOT ACT amended FISA allowing wire tapping of anyone. The congress, including democrats overwhelmingly approved the PATRIOT ACT.

Answer 7

Clinton Executive Order in 1995:

"the Attorney General is authorized to approve physical searches, without a court order"

http://nodis3.gsfc.nasa.gov/displayEO.cfm?id=EO_12949_


Even Republicans voted against what Clinton wanted to do. Read number 4.

http://www.cdt.org/security/usapatriot/19950426cnss-analysis.html
"On February 10, 1995, a counterterrorism bill drafted by the Clinton Administration was introduced in the Senate as S. 390 and in the House of Representatives as H.R. 896 ...
The legislation would:
1)authorize the Justice Department to pick and choose crimes to investigate and prosecute based on political beliefs and associations;
2)repeal the ancient provision barring the U.S. military from civilian law enforcement;
3)expand a pre-trial detention scheme that puts the burden of proof on the accused;
4)loosen the carefully-crafted rules governing federal wiretaps, in violation of the Fourth Amendment;
5) establish special courts that would use secret evidence to order the deportation of persons convicted of no crimes, in violation of basic principles of due process;
6) permit permanent detention by the Attorney General of aliens convicted of no crimes, with no judicial review;
7) give the President unreviewable power to criminalize fund-raising for lawful activities associated with unpopular causes;
8) renege on the Administration's approval in the last Congress of a provision to insure that the FBI would not investigate based on First Amendment activities; and
9) resurrect the discredited ideological visa denial provisions of the McCarran Walter Act to bar foreign speakers. "

I agree with most of this stuff. America is at war with terrorists and they don't wear uniforms.

Answer 8

I'm sorry, what Americans were/are being wire tapped?

Answer 9

because he has a mindset that he is an emperor who can do as he wants, and to hell with everyone else. the republican majorities in both house and senate REFUSED to allow any formal investigations into his criminal acts, the democrats have not. unfortunately, the democrats are well aware of his criminal actions, but to seek impeachment is not an option since to do so would be too long a process to make it worth the effort. even if a bill of impeachment were passed in the house, any trial in the senate would be defeated since the republican minority would decline to convict him of any wrongdoing since it would take 67 votes to remove him from office, and the most they could muster would be 51. as a realistic endeavor, any impeachment proceedings would be a waste of time and resources.

Answer 10

The NSA wiretapped people within the United States who were deemed to have been communicating with enemies of America overseas.

Personally, I'd rather the government hear me pathetically trying to get a date with a girl who thinks I'm a dork than have some guy ordering a dirty bomb attack on my city.