John Dean (FindLaw): George W. Bush as the new Richard M. Nixon

George W. Bush as the new Richard M. Nixon: Both wiretapped illegally, and impeachably' by John Dean

On Friday, December 16, the New York Times published a major scoop by James Risen and Eric Lichtblau: They reported that Bush authorized the National Security Agency (NSA) to spy on Americans without warrants, ignoring the procedures of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).

It was a long story loaded with astonishing information of lawbreaking at the White House. It reported that sometime in 2002, Bush issued an executive order authorizing NSA to track and intercept international telephone and/or email exchanges coming into, or out of, the U.S. - when one party was believed to have direct or indirect ties with al Qaeda.
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Initially, Bush and the White House stonewalled, neither confirming nor denying the president had ignored the law. Bush refused to discuss it in his interview with Jim Lehrer.

Then, on Saturday, December 17, in his radio broadcast, Bush admitted that the New York Times was correct - and thus conceded he had committed an impeachable offense.

There can be no serious question that warrantless wiretapping, in violation of the law, is impeachable. After all, Nixon was charged in Article II of his bill of impeachment with illegal wiretapping for what he, too, claimed were national security reasons.

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when John Dean is the hero and Bob Woodward is one of the bad guys, eh?

I think it is really very useful. We need something like this every week from now until Congress appoints a special prosecutor.

The one place where I think Dean falters a bit is in an area apparently outside his experience. He does not recognize how much information can be established despite codes and despite not knowing the content of communications. The routing information on each the packets of data is of great value. Networks, hierarchical relationships within networks, relationships between networks, general locations, and for the careless terrorist unique identifiers can be worked out rather readily.

everyone in the US should be required to read this.