- ‘When The President Does It, That Means That It Is Not Illegal’ - Richard Nixon, 19 May 1977.
(This appears to be the guiding principle of George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Alberto Gonzales, John Yoo, etc.) - James Risen and Eric Lichtblau, Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts, New York Times, 16 December 2005.
(The article that began the public exposure of the NSA domestic spying program.) - The Republicans' Constitutional Crisis, Perrspectives Blog, 20 February 2006.
- Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, Wikipedia.
- NSA warrantless surveillance controversy, Wikipedia.
Many references in this very useful Wikipedia article. - Beth Nolan, et al., On NSA Spying: A Letter to Congress, The New York Review of Books, Volume 53, Number 2, 9 February 2006.
- Glenn Greenwald, NSA legal arguments, 19 February 2006.
- Glenn Greenwald, PBS's "Frontline: Spying on the Home Front", 14 May 2007.
- The Document Library: NSA Domestic Surveillance Scandal, Perrspectives.
Very thorough list of links. - Spying at Home, The Washington Post.
A collection of links to some/many of the paper's articles on this subject. Perhaps outdated or not kept up-to-date, but still useful. - Eugene Robinson, Gonzales's Signature Moment, The Washington Post, 19 May 2007.
- Scott Horton, No Comment blog, Harper's Magazine.
Horton follows the various Department of Justice / Bush administration scandals and the Republican Party's creeping fascism.
Saturday, May 19, 2007
More links on the warrantless domestic spying authorized by George Bush and enabled by Alberto Gonzales (and many other "loyal Bushies").