The Conservative Zone

This does not justify President Bush's position on getting warrentless wiretaps. In fact, this shows you just how bad Clinton's Administration really was: Clinton NSA Eavesdropped on U.S. Calls.

During the 1990's under President Clinton, the National Security Agency monitored millions of private phone calls placed by U.S. citizens and citizens of other countries under a super secret program code-named Echelon.

..., the NSA had been monitoring private domestic telephone conversations on a much larger scale throughout the 1990s - all of it done without a court order, let alone a catalyst like the 9/11 attacks.

Neal Boortz proposed an interesting scenario, namely Osama bin Laden calls someone in the US. No one answers. Now, we know that OBL changes phones frequently. In case OBL calls back from a different phone in a few minutes, there is no time to obtain a search warrant.

Granted, there might not be time, but getting a warrant while the wiretap is in action I can understand. There is judges available 24/7 for FISA (Foreign Intelligence Services Act) and if there isn't time to get one right now, a parallel operation should be permitted.

But this does not excuse the Clinton Administration from spying on it's own citizens. That just shows the corruptness of the Clintons. I don't excuse it, but at least Bush had a reason.