Did George Bush invent wire tapping?
609661
No president invented the concept of spying on telephone calls but Woodrow Wilson gets credit for being the first to authorize the interception of all cabled messages to and from Europe during World War 1. Herbert Hoover used wiretaps during his war on bootleggers during the twenties prompting the creation of the communications act in 1934 that Franklin Roosevelt ignored during World War two saying it didn't apply to threats of national security. Sound familiar? Truman authorized wiretapping during his hunt for communists. Kennedy and Johnson both tapped Martin Luther King's phones saying he had ties to communism and was a threat to national security. Nixon ordered his brother's phones tapped! Republican or Democrat presidents will find excuses to get around the bill of rights they take oaths to defend.\n\nVin
910903
WIre tapping means telephone tapping.A well designed tap installed on a phone wire which is difficult to detect.\nand my question would be,\nMr. Bush,would you like to suicide?
1098485
EXACTLY!!!\n\nThere is a story circulating right now about the Bush administration, ONCE AGAIN, violating privacy laws by getting access to all banking/financial transactions; although, they claim to have only looked at international transactions. They have the authority to do this BUT not until they go before a judge and get approval. Of course with Bush not believing in the consitution, he did not do that = broke the law AGAIN!!\n\nNow, to counter this Bush has been bombarding talk radio and Fox News (even saw an upset guy on pbs The Newshour yesterday about it) with propaganda that does not explain the entire story as I did in the first paragraph. \n\nTheir defense is we are in a 'war on terror'. So, basically because we are in a war on terror, they believe they can ignore all the laws and ppl's right to privacy, etc...\n\nSo, as you stated... with them attacking the press for reporting this story.. there goes freedom of speech and the press.\n\nBtw, the laws about a reporter revealing his/her source are very vague. A reporter does have the right to tell his/her source but most don't because that hinders ppl from wanting to tell them things later. I personally think that if someone tells a reporter something and the act of telling is in itself breaking the law then the reporter SHOULD be required to tell his/her source. IE, this Carl Rove thing about the CIA agent leak. We all know he was behind that but the reporter won't tell.
1048847
did you read the papers last week about finding wmds? is the American president the only one in charge of the environment or are we not all in charge of caring for the earth? and last but not the wire phone tabs was pass in 1994 and a federal court just upheld the decsion .also the next law was passed in Jan. 2000 not passed by this president. \n\n http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Surveillance/200001_us_fed_wiretap_laws.html
152789
It was either Nixon or Clinton that said it before.\n\nOne thing for sure Clinton definetly believed it.\n\nBy the way if anyone is asking whether the spying thing is Legal, it sure is cause it's been used to bust Drug dealers, why can't the same be done to Terrorists?
565733
I'm a democrat and i am not angry.  I notice that people in power tend to use that power for self interest.  This is true of democrats and republicans so there's no difference.  I am not angry at George Bush, he is just doing his best.  I hardly ever raise a fuss about things.  Just work quietly here in my community.  Honestly i think the whole thing about wiretapping is overblown and i wish there was more on the radio about darfour.
1121876
goerge bush knew it was going to happen. he wasnt even suprised when he heard it. \nhere are some cool things:\n-9+11=20 you do a trick with the 20 dolloar bill and you can see a oicture of the WTC on fire.\n-911 (emergency #) or 9/11\n-the pentagon had nine hundred and eleven mails and emails that day.
429503
George Bush authorized the NSA to conduct illegal wiretaps on American citizens. Bush claimed that these were justified on the basis of national security. But there is a legal mechanism for conducting emergency wiretaps followed by court approval within 72 hours. Bush ignored that mechanism and exceeded his executive authority. Bush claims he has authority to wiretap anyone he wishes but legal scholars, including some Republican lawmakers, disagree. This is against our rights!! And Bush continues to break the law because he thinks he is above any law here !!
1163512
You can't hide anything from Bush now. Don't you remember? We now have domestic spying!
657470
The Kennedy administration wiretapped Martin Luther King. \n\nSee link below.
553960
George Bush invented Bin Laden. He's the enemy Americans are conditioned to hate. George Orwell understood this State-operated brainwashing - read '1984'.\n\nOsama exists, he's a nutcase extremist, but he's just a man. The Bush Administration created the legend and the very concept of Al Qaeda to focus the gullible American public on the Bush terror-war. This is not a war to wipe out Islamic terrorists. Its a war designed to secure the oil fields of the Middle East before they fall to unfriendly Islamic Governments. But to pull off this expensive, brutal stunt, Bush needed the American people on side - so he invented the bogeyman. Its worked quite well so far.\n\nThus it is unlikely he'll be captured any time soon!
418527
Ever hear of the Patriot Act? The NSA's been doing just that in a big way since 9/11,and was doing it on a smaller scale since before that. Also let's not forget the FBI,\nthat also has a history of tapping phones since J.Edgar\nHoover-I'm sure they've kept up with the times.
129170
Yes, all electronic communication is recorded into a big computer database.  A program sifts through looking for specific things, which are then brought to the attention of a person.  The person reviews.  So for example the fact that I type President Bush is a great President,  that will be reviewed, and the person reviewing will dismiss.\n\nPeople who plot things there communication is reviewed, and possibly government intervenes.\n\nEverything you type in an email or yahoo answers or say on a cell phone is monitored,  and with key phrases reviewed.  Do nothing violent against your government and you have nothing to worry about.
191667
Indirectly I think maybe he did, with what happened with 9/11 and how Bush handled it.  I never looked at something like that.
190347
Yes so, look at "Donny Brasco". His name was Joe Pistone undercover plant, and the story is true. Joe Pistone was a snitch, just like Jack Abbarmoff is going to snitch on Bush & Cheney to get them impeached.
894497
No it is not. Most of Bushes friends are crooks...example Ken Lay. ENRON\narrogant and deluded the whole lot of them
761205
in news stories of columbine type massacres they have pointed out how the people were said to have communicated over the Internet.  I hardly see how it would be possible but if the Bushies want to further restrict free speech like in the phone taps they'll figure out a way to do it.  \n\nI can see how you might monitor suspicious subjects but with the mass number of communications over the net don't see how you could ever obtain any useful info.  I can email my uncle that lives across town through a server in Asia, ya know what I mean.