NSA Destroyed Evidence of Domestic Spying

NSA Destroyed Evidence of Domestic Spying: "The National Security Agency, the top-secret spy shop that has been secretly eavesdropping on Americans under a plan authorized by President Bush seven years ago, destroyed the names of thousands of Americans and US companies it collected after 9/11 because the agency feared it would come under fire by lawmakers for conducting unlawful surveillance on United States citizens without authorization from a court, according to a little known report published in October 2001.

NSA lawyers advised the agency to immediately destroy the names of thousands of American citizens and businesses it collected shortly after 9/11 in its quest to target alleged terrorists in this country. NSA lawyers told the agency that the surveillance was illegal and that it could not share the data it collected with the CIA or other intelligence agencies.

The lawyers said the surveillance could result in numerous lawsuits from people identified in the surveillance reports, two former US officials told the Houston Chronicle in an October 27, 2001, report, and was illegal despite any terrorist threat that existed in the days following 9/11."

This really does not surprise me at all. Call me paranoid, but I assumed there was, and is, much more domestic surveillance going on than anyone would like to admit. Let's not forget, that some parts of Bush's spy program, like Email monitoring, have been show to have started even before the terror attacks on 9/11. This administration is simply out of control, and is bent on destroying the America that we once knew.