Media reported Hayden's defense without challenge; will they now report
contradictions?
Will the following media -- and others -- who
repeated Hayden's claims without challenge now report the contradictions in the
Bush administration's defense of the domestic surveillance program?
From the January 23 Associated Press article headlined "Bush
Calls Surveillance Legal, Necessary":
Under the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act, government officials had to prove to a secretive intelligence
court that there was "probable cause" to believe that a person was tied to
terrorism. Bush's program allows senior NSA officials to approve surveillance
when there was "reason to believe" the call may involve al-Qaida and its
affiliates.
Hayden maintained that the work was within the law. "The
constitutional standard is reasonable. ... I am convinced that we are lawful
because what it is we are doing is reasonable," he said at the National Press
Club.
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what a load!!!....hasn't the former head of NSA heard?.....the knew who they were....one was even in the phone book.....the intelligence community was screaming("hair on fire, red lights blinking") and the higher ups ignored them!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jan. 23, 2006 — Michael Hayden, the deputy director of national intelligence and
former director of the National Security Agency, defended a controversial NSA
eavesdropping program this morning, kicking off a weeklong effort by the White
House to counter criticism of the highly secretive program.
In a speech at
the National Press Club, Hayden said if the program had been in place before the
Sept. 11 attacks, it may have detected some of the 9/11 hijackers.
Related:
"Had this program been in effect prior to 9/11, it is my professional
judgment that we would have detected some of the 9/11 al Qaeda operatives in the
United States, and we would have identified them as such," said Hayden.
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