Bush Planned Wire Taps 2 Weeks After Taking Office?

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9/11 supposedly changed everything. Most conservatives (particularly those 25%-ers who still love The Decider) agree that it made necessary some fundamental rethinking into what America stands for.

According to them, we should be willing to give up some privacy, submit to searches, acquiesce to torture and rendition. . .all sorts of things that used to be considered "un-American." But what, fair reader, are we to think about making some of those changes before there ever was a 9/11?

I don't want to over-think this, but I can only come to two conclusions about Bush if he wanted to institute these changes so early in his administration. Either he anticipated that something like 9/11 would happen (making him amazingly prescient or complicit in those events), or he was just a power-mad dictator from the beginning. You be the judge!

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AT&T engineer says Bush Administration sought to implement domestic spying within two weeks of taking office

Nearly 1,300 words into Sunday's New York Times article revealing new details of the National Security Agency's domestic eavesdropping program, the lawyer for an AT&T engineer alleges that "within two weeks of taking office, the Bush administration was planning a comprehensive effort of spying on Americans’ phone usage.”

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