Letters to the Editor
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Disturbing
Great post GG. However, what is most disturbing to me is that this illegal surveillance program was being created in February 2001. If the rationale for the program was supposedly 9/11 - then why was the program begun in February? If the program was created in February to stop potential terrorist attacks, then why did 9/11 happen? If we can have unlimited, warrantless spying and still have 9/11, then any argument that the program is necessary fails.
As pointed out, this should be a major scandal as the timing calls into question every supposed rationale Bush has ever asserted for the need for warrantless spying. Yet, I doubt we will hear the real questions asked.
Lastly, I have always tried not to slip into conspiracy-theory mode when looking at the behavior of the Bush administration. But when I read about stuff like this, it gets harder and harder.