Spying saved us from another attack

It's not too hard to put two and two together here. The administration is getting massive heat about the NSA domestic spying program, even from their own supporters. So Bush announces that tapping phone calls spying foiled a plot against the the Library Tower in Los Angeles back in 2002. Interesting timing.

Intel pros say Bush is lying about foiling 2002 terror attack
Outraged intelligence professionals say President George W. Bush is "cheapening" and "politicizing" their work with claims the United States foiled a planned terrorist attack against Los Angeles in 2002.

Bush Renames West Coast's tallest building -- Oops, nevermind
George Bush revealed in a speech today that a building in downtown Los Angeles was evidently the target of an Al Qaeda plot hatched in 2001. The building he named, "the Liberty Tower in Los Angeles,'' does not exist. There is, however, a building which matches Bush's description of the ``the tallest building on the West Coast.'' It is the Library Tower, not the Liberty Tower.

Liberty tower sounds better for the head games and scare tactics. Maybe next week Bush will rename the Golden Gate bridge to the Freedom bridge. "They're attacking our liberty and freedom".

Only on Fox: Cable channel aired photos of aliens attacking Library Tower

This is hilarious, yet sad. Bush announces the "Liberty tower" was saved from an attack, and Fox has footage ready to go, literally minutes later (like someone told them ahead of time) of the building being destroyed by aliens in the movie Independence Day. Talk about a psychological effect on the American people (that watch Fox anyway).

Twenty-Three Intel Experts Say LA Terror Plot a Sham
Following yesterday's highly suspiciously timed announcement that the US government had foiled a 2002 terror plot against the Los Angeles Library Tower, intelligence experts and White House reporters have uniformly debunked the story.

L.A. Mayor blindsided by Bush Announcement

He didn't get the memo.

Bush faces Republican revolt over spying

Congressional Republicans are threatening to force a legal showdown with President George W. Bush over his claim that he has the constitutional power to order domestic surveillance of Americans in the name of national security.

But lying to start a war is still cool, apparently.

Domestic Surveillance: It's the Local Calls, Stupid!

Yesterday I posted on Bob Herbert’s column that concluded Bush’s NSA spy program was both illegal and ineffective. The Bush administration has had multiple opportunities to take whatever steps they felt necessary to legalize Bush’s surveillance program and each time chose to keep it outside of the law. Despite its extra-judicial status, the program has failed to produce anything more than a handful of terror suspects and no known arrests or stopped terror plots. I find it hard to believe that the Bush administration would be hiding any success stories from this program and I refuse to give them the benefit of the doubt about this program’s success.

The whole purpose of the domestic spying program is to scare YOU into not talking with friends and neighbors about what you think is going on. The one thing Bush is most afraid of right now is Americans suddenly realizing that there is no 30% who still supports Bush, that nearly 100% of Americans (ignoring those who sell their souls for a government paycheck) know that they were lied into a war of conquest against an innocent people. Bush is afraid that what happened in Romania will happen here; that a minor spark will trigger a massive uprising against him.

Want to know who is terrorizing the American people? The American government! They used terror to trick you into a war and now they are using terror to keep you from complaining about it.

Don't be afraid. They cannot watch everyone at the same time. and the fact that we have elections in this country, rigged though they may be, is tacit approval to hold opposing viewpoints.

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