NY TImes: Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts. Months after the Sept. 11 attacks, President Bush secretly authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on Americans and others inside the United States to search for evidence of terrorist activity without the court-approved warrants ordinarily required for domestic spying, according to government officials.

Once again, Bush has ignored the Constitution. And once again, Congress has been all too willing to let it happen.

The big surprise in this story is that the Times held it for a full year before publishing, cowed by the administration's insistence that it should not be published. Okay, then, the paper should now tell us what exactly has changed.

Dan Gillmor

I want to know why Conservatives are NOT in an uproar over this one. Did 9/11 change our National Psyche so much that we are willing to accept the destruction of our constitution as the price for "safety."

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