9/11!! Terror!!!! IRAQ!!!!!!

Therefore, do whatever we tell you!!!

U.S. authorities racing to find three kidnapped American soldiers in Iraq last May labored for nearly 10 hours to get legal authority for wiretaps to help in the hunt, an intelligence official told Congress on Thursday.

The top U.S. spy agency, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, sent Congress a timeline detailing the wiretap effort as the Bush administration makes its case to wary Democrats for a permanent expansion of its authority to eavesdrop on the foreign communications of terrorism suspects.

"In order to comply with the law, the government was required to spend valuable time obtaining an emergency authorization ... to engage in collection related to the kidnapping," Ronald Burgess, principle deputy director to McConnell, said in a letter to U.S. Rep. Silvestre Reyes.

This is nothing but a sack full of disgraceful lies.

The illegal wiretapping that Bushco is trying to set up retroactive immunity to only applies to eavesdropping on the domestic communications of U.S. citizens. The government has always had the power to wiretap in other cases.

According to Reuters, McConnell said "the targeted foreign communications were carried in part on a wire inside the United States", which makes no sense, since these American soldiers were in Iraq, unless you consider McConnell's true motive, which is the ability to spy on U.S. citizens so they can crack down on domestic dissent.

I hope Congress doesn't give into the terror inspired by the Bush administration and instead cracks down on its unlawful activities.