How Long Has The Present Speaker Of The House Known About The Extent Of The NSA's Spying?
NSA Spying: What Did Pelosi Know?
by Ray McGovern
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has admitted knowing for several years about the Bush administration's eavesdropping on Americans without a court warrant. She said she was briefed on it when she was ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee. But was she told that the illegal surveillance began well before 9/11?
Referring to her briefing in an apologia-sans-apology Washington Post op-ed on Jan. 15, 2006, she wrote: "This is how I came to be informed of President Bush's authorization for the NSA to conduct certain types of surveillance."
Read the entire article here:
http://www.antiwar.com/mcgovern/?articleid=11760
<< Home