Liar, Liar pants on fire....Bush says ‘civil liberties were guaranteed’ under his NSA surveillance

[kpete]

Bush says ‘civil liberties were guaranteed’ under his NSA Internet surveillance

“I think he damaged the security of the country,” he explained. “I put the program in place to protect the country, and one of the certainties is civil liberties were guaranteed.”


The former president added that his program had found “the proper balance” between privacy and security.

Bush said that he “could care less” that polls showed more Americans now viewed him favorably.

“Ultimately history will judge the decisions I made, and I won’t be around because it’s going to take a while for the objective historians to to show up,” he grinned. “So, I’m pretty comfortable with it. I did what I did.”


http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/01/bush-says-civil-were-liberties-guaranteed-under-his-nsa-internet-surveillance/

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1. "could care less" What a dolt

I heard him say that on several occasions, saying exactly opposite of what he thought he was saying.

[malaise]

2. Big big lie - he was forced to follow the law in 2007

The NSA warrantless surveillance controversy (AKA "Warrantless Wiretapping&quot concerns surveillance of persons within the United States during the collection of foreign intelligence by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) as part of the war on terror. Under this program, referred to by the Bush administration as the "terrorist surveillance program",[1] part of the broader President's Surveillance Program, the NSA was authorized by executive order to monitor, without search warrants, the phone calls, Internet activity (Web, e-mail, etc.), text messaging, and other communication involving any party believed by the NSA to be outside the U.S., even if the other end of the communication lies within the U.S.

Critics, however, claimed that that the program was in an effort to attempt to silence critics of the Bush Administration and their handling of several hot button issues during its tenure. Under public pressure, the Bush administration ceased the warrantless wiretapping program in January 2007 and returned review of surveillance to the FISA court.[2] Subsequently, in 2008 Congress passed the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, which relaxed some of the original FISA court requirements.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_%282001%E2%80%9307%29

[spanone]

3. fuck junior