DOES THE CRIMINALITY EVER END?

By way of the Washington Monthly ...

It turns out that the Bush administration was asking the telecom industry to work with them to spy on Americans … back in February, 2001. Do the math. That’s seven months before 9/11. Here’s a snippet from the NY Times.

… in February 2001, just days before agency officials met with Qwest officials, the N.S.A. met with AT&T officials to discuss replicating a network center in Bedminster, N.J., to give the agency access to all the global phone and e-mail traffic that ran through it.

And the Bush administration wants retroactive immunity for the telecom industry, claiming they were helping “in times of national security emergencies”? Can anyone explain, what was the emergency in February of 2001?

- Mark