Sunday NYT: CHENEY/HAYDEN PUSHED FOR PHONE TAPPING

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Vice President Dick Cheney argued in the weeks after the September 11 attacks that the National Security Agency should intercept domestic telephone calls and e-mails without warrants as part of its war on terrorism, The New York Times reported in Sunday editions.

Cheney and his top legal adviser, David Addington, believed the Constitution permitted spy agencies to take such sweeping measures to defend the country, The newspaper said, citing two senior intelligence officials who spoke anonymously.

Gen. Michael Hayden, the director of the NSA persuaded wary NSA officers to accept the eavesdropping program and sold the White House on its limits, the Times said.

The newspaper said accounts by the two intelligence officials, as well as others it interviewed, placed Hayden as the man in the middle as President George W. Bush demanded that intelligence agencies act to prevent more attacks.

more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060513/ts_nm/security_usa_cheney_dc

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1. Hmmm. Cheney's noted surfacing re: Plame. Cheney pushing for more

spying. Cheney telling Libby it was okay to 'discuss' Plame.

Cheney this, Cheney that. Tell me, other than look like a complete vapid empty-headed amoral asshole, what HAS blivet done? Apparently nothing when you come right down to it.

Can't Poopy bull in Cheney's leash? Or is Cheney just too strong for the old man now?

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2. i especially liked Cheney the other day stirring up another cold war

with Russia.

Cheney 's the one who should be removed first, imo

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3. Wasn't that special.

They just leave no stone unfucked with.

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4. Every pernicious ambition explored

most of them virtually unopposed

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5. kick?