More nonsense
In today's live radio address, the president explains why the NSA needs to spy on us.
In this address here is as far as he was willing to go
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posted 12:16 PM
This authorization is a vital tool in our war against the terrorists. It is critical to saving American lives. The American people expect me to do everything in my power under our laws and Constitution to protect them and their civil liberties.As I said in the last post, it's time to stop letting the president simply say whatever he does is because he's trying to keep us safe. The president needs to be pushed to provide evidence that certain measures actually are necessary.
In this address here is as far as he was willing to go
As the 9/11 Commission pointed out, it was clear that terrorists inside the United States were communicating with terrorists abroad before the Sept. 11 attacks. And the commission criticized our nation’s inability to uncover links between terrorists here at home and terrorists abroad.Now I suppose I should give the president the benefit of the doubt because he didn't have time to go into details (not that he's a details guy anyway). But if you don't know the terrorists are even here, how are wiretaps going to help? Just a question.
Two of the terrorist hijackers who flew a jet in the Pentagon, Nawaf Alhazmi and Khalid al-Midhar, communicated while they were in the United States, to other members of Al Qaeda who were overseas. But we didn’t know they were here until it was too late.
The authorization I gave the National Security Agency after Sept. 11 helped address that problem in a way that is fully consistent with my constitutional responsibilities and authorities.
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