{"id":3325,"date":"2009-07-11T16:15:14","date_gmt":"2009-07-11T20:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=3325"},"modified":"2009-07-11T16:24:01","modified_gmt":"2009-07-11T20:24:01","slug":"other-intelligence-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2009\/07\/11\/other-intelligence-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"“Other Intelligence Activities” ????????????"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Report: Bush Surveillance Program Was Massive<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Associated Press<\/strong><\/a>
10 July 2009
by: Pamela Hess<\/div>\n

…The report says too few relevant officials knew of the size and depth of the program, let alone signed off on it. They particularly criticize John Yoo, a deputy assistant attorney general who wrote legal memos undergirding the policy.<\/strong><\/font> His boss, Attorney General John Ashcroft, was not aware until March 2004 of the exact nature of the intelligence operations beyond wiretapping that he had been approving for the previous two and a half years, the report says. <\/p>\n

Most of the intelligence leads generated under what was known as the "President’s Surveillance Program" did not have any connection to terrorism, the report said. But FBI agents told the authors that the "mere possibility of the leads producing useful information made investigating the leads worthwhile." <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

The inspectors general interviewed more than 200 people inside and outside the government, but five former Bush administration officials refused to be questioned. They were Ashcroft, Yoo, former CIA Director George Tenet, former White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card and David Addington, an aide to former Vice President Dick Cheney. <\/p>\n

According to the report, Addington could personally decide who in the administration was "read into" — allowed access to — the classified program<\/strong>. The only piece of the intelligence-gathering operation acknowledged by the Bush White House was the wiretapping-without-warrants effort. The administration admitted in 2005 that it had allowed the National Security Agency to intercept international communications that passed through U.S. cables without seeking court orders…<\/strong><\/font><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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What "Other Intelligence Activities"  that "<\/strong><\/font>did not have any connection to terrorism" are they talking [or not talking] about? <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Smell any smoke?
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