Posted: 18 Jul 2013 10:15 PM PDT
Contradicting
a statement by ex-vice president Dick Cheney on Sunday that warrantless
domestic surveillance might have prevented 9/11, 2007 court records
indicate that the Bush-Cheney administration began such surveillance at
least 7 months prior to 9/11.
The Bush administration bypassed the law requiring such actions to be
authorized by FISA court warrants, the body set up in the Seventies to
oversee Executive Branch spying powers after abuses by Richard Nixon.
Former QWest CEO John Nacchios said that at a meeting with the NSA on
February 27, 2001, he and other QWest officials declined to participate.
AT&T, Verizon and Bellsouth all agreed to shunt customer
communications records to an NSA database.
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