NSA Wiretapping: One Year Old Today

By Jeralyn, Section War on Terror
Posted on Sun Dec 17, 2006 at 05:41:00 AM EST

Who knows how long Bush's NSA warrantless wiretapping has been going on, but it was a year ago today that Bush 'fessed up to it:

On Dec. 17, 2005, Bush publicly acknowledged for the first time he had authorized the NSA to monitor, without approval from a judge, phone calls and e-mails that come into or originate in the U.S. and involve people the government suspects of having terrorist links.