Bush Authorized Domestic Spying before 9/11: "Bush Authorized Domestic Spying before 9/11 - ...The NSA's vast data-mining activities began shortly after Bush was sworn in as president and the document contradicts his assertion that the 9/11 attacks prompted him to take the unprecedented step of signing a secret executive order authorizing the NSA to monitor a select number of American citizens thought to have ties to terrorist groups...From Nony"

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