{"id":5449,"date":"2007-12-16T17:35:02","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T01:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5449"},"modified":"2007-12-16T16:34:44","modified_gmt":"2007-12-17T00:34:44","slug":"ny-times-bush-domestic-spy-plans-implemented-before-911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/?p=5449","title":{"rendered":"NY TIMES: Bush Domestic Spy Plans Implemented BEFORE 9\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>9\/11 changed everything. Except for all the stuff the Bush Administration was planning <i>before<\/i> 9\/11 anyway.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rawstory.com\/news\/2007\/ATT_engineer_says_Bush_Administration_sought_1216.html\">Via RAW STORY&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">Nearly 1,300 words into Sunday&#8217;s <em>New York Times<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/12\/16\/washington\/16nsa.html?ei=5065&#038;en=03d7b2d9209d9d7d&#038;ex=1198472400&#038;partner=MYWAY&#038;pagewanted=print\">article<\/a> revealing new details of the National Security Agency&#8217;s domestic eavesdropping program, the lawyer for an AT&#038;T engineer alleges that &#8220;within two weeks of taking office, the Bush administration was planning a comprehensive effort of spying on Americans\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 phone usage.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>In a New Jersey federal court case, the engineer claims that AT&#038;T sought to create a phone center that would give the NSA access to &#8220;all the global phone and e-mail traffic that ran through&#8221; a New Jersey network hub.<\/p>\n<p>The former AT&#038;T employee, who spoke on condition of anonymity to the <em>Times <\/em>said he took part in several discussions with agency officials about the plan.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153What he saw,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Bruce Afran, a New Jersey lawyer representing the plaintiffs, told the <em>Times<\/em>, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153was decisive evidence that within two weeks of taking office, the Bush administration was planning a comprehensive effort of spying on Americans\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 phone usage.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/div>\n<p>Democrats in Congress have a plan to <em>not<\/em> take decisive action <em>immediately<\/em> in regard to this most disturbing news!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9\/11 changed everything. Except for all the stuff the Bush Administration was planning before 9\/11 anyway. Via RAW STORY&#8230; Nearly 1,300 words into Sunday&#8217;s New York Times article revealing new details of the National Security Agency&#8217;s domestic eavesdropping program, the lawyer for an AT&#038;T engineer alleges that &#8220;within two weeks of taking office, the Bush [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}