That is exactly what he said today, in so many words. Read on.
Now Bush is claiming that the phone calls he was tapping were solely Al Qaeda members calling people in the US.
Bush said the program limited to "a few numbers" called by known al Qaeda members outside the United States.If that's the case, then why was it so important that the administration NOT get search warrants? Why were they so deathly afraid that the court would NOT give them a warrant? Is Bush suggesting that any court in the country would reject a warrant to tap a phone conversation an American is having with Osama bin Laden? That's ridiculous, and patently untrue on its face. Clearly that's not who Bush's domestic spying program was targeting, or it wouldn't be a new program requiring new rules, and it wouldn't be "too difficult" to get a warrant after the fact. Any court in the land would give you a warrant on the spot to tape Osama's phone calls.
"If somebody from al Qaeda is calling you, we'd like to know why," Bush said.
If that's all Bush was doing, taping the equivalent of Osama's phone calls, then he could already do it under the law. We therefore know that this is NOT what Bush was doing.
So the question remains, what was Bush really doing, who was he really spying on, and why is he now lying about it?
