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Edited on Thu Feb-14-08 03:54 PM by BuyingThyme
1978: It' a bill or something.
2001: Bush, Cheney, Pelosi et al start spying on Americans without warrants, not simply in violation of FISA, but in violation of the U.S. Constitution.
2001, 9/11: America is attacked by non-Americans.
2004: The New York Times discovers that Bush, Cheney, Pelosi et al have been spying on Americans since before 9/11, but they withhold this information from the public in a successful effort to rig the presidential (re)election to the favor of Bush.
2006: Cheney insists that the attacks would have been prevented had he been allowed to spy on non-Americans before 9/11.
2006: Pelosi takes the Constitution off the table, thus protecting herself and her colleagues from from being removed from office and imprisoned for spying on Americans on the days leading up to the 9/11 attacks.
2007: Americans start putting the pieces together.
2008: Tel-com companies are given immunity for the sole purpose of preventing further investigations into the illegal spying, thus preventing further investigations into the events leading up to the 9/11 attacks.
2009: Americans realize that the 9/11 attacks never could have been accomplished without the preemptive implementation of a warrantless wiretapping program which was specifically designed to monitor the activities not of non-Americans, but of Americans in the days leading up to the attacks.
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