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George W. Bush Made Retroactive N.S.A. 'Fix' After Hospital Room Showdown
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George W. Bush Made Retroactive N.S.A. 'Fix' After Hospital Room Showdown | 20 Sept 2015 | President [sic] George W. Bush sought to retroactively authorize portions of the National Security Agency's post-9/11 surveillance and data collection program after a now-[in]famous incident in 2004 in which his attorney general refused to certify the program as lawful from his hospital bed, according to newly declassified portions of a government investigation. Mr. Bush's effort to salvage the surveillance program without changes did not satisfy top Justice Department officials, who threatened to resign. But the newly disclosed passages of a report by inspectors general of six agencies suggest that the confrontation in the hospital room came after the Justice Department identified several problems, including a “gap” between what Mr. Bush had authorized the N.S.A. to collect and what the agency was collecting in practice…The authorization “gap” was among the disclosures in newly declassified passages of a 746-page report by six agencies' inspectors general about the N.S.A. program, code-named Stellarwind.
Source: http://www.legitgov.org/George-W-Bush-Made-Retroactive-NSA-Fix-After-Hospital-Room-Showdown
