Ex-NSA Chief Inman Criticizes Bush’s Warrantless Wiretaps
Monday night at a panel discussion at the New York Public Library on the NSA’s continued use of warrantless domestic wiretaps authorized by President Bush, former NSA director (under President Jimmy Carter) Bobby Ray Inman became one of the hightest-ranking former intelligence officials to publically criticize the program. Dispite having previously being very careful in public statements he’s made since the NSA eavesdropping program hit the public media in December, he now said that “this activity is not authorized,” and that the Bush administration “need(s) to get away from the idea that they can continue doing it.”
Now Inman is calling on the President to either officially change the law governing wiretaps or abandon the program, suggesting that the program is indeed illegal.
Source: “Ex-NSA Chief Assils Bush Taps” (Wired News)
tags: spying on Americans, warrantless wiretapping, George W. Bush, Bobby Ray Inman, NSA
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