- Colin Powell says Bush's use of NSA to conduct warrantless
wiretaps acceptable. On December 25, former Secretary of State Colin Powell
told ABC News This Week that the Bush administration's use of NSA to spy
on U.S. citizens without a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court warrant
was legitimate. However, Powell, himself, was the target of such eavesdropping
by NSA. While he was Powell's deputy undersecretary for international arms
control, unconfirmed US ambassador to the UN John Bolton, on the orders
of Dick Cheney, ordered NSA to conduct domestic eavesdropping on phone
calls between Powell and New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson. Of primary
interest to Bolton and Cheney was Powell's green light to Richardson to
conduct diplomatic back channel nuclear talks with North Korea's UN ambassador
in New York.
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- waynemadsenreport.com
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