http://www.metafilter.com/tags/makenomistake Posts tagged with 'makenomistake' at MetaFilter. Fri, 13 Jan 2006 10:17:24 -0800 Fri, 13 Jan 2006 10:17:24 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/48247/Bush%2Dauthorized%2Ddomestic%2Dspying%2Dbefore%2D911 <a href="http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011306Z.shtml">Bush authorized domestic spying before 9/11.</a> <em>What had long been understood to be protocol in the event that the NSA spied on average Americans was that the agency would black out the identities of those individuals or immediately destroy the information. But according to people who worked at the NSA as encryption specialists during this time, that's not what happened. On orders from Defense Department officials and President Bush, the agency kept a running list of the names of Americans in its system and made it readily available to a number of senior officials in the Bush administration, these sources said, which in essence meant the NSA was conducting a covert domestic surveillance operation in violation of the law.</em> tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.48247 Fri, 13 Jan 2006 10:17:24 -0800 911 civilliberties domesticspying georgewbush makenomistake nsa rxrfrx