Rapport: Het witte Huis zegt spioneren breder dan eerder toegelaten

Reuters

De hoogste de intelligentieambtenaar heeft van het beleid van Bush erkend dat een controversieel binnenlands toezichtprogramma slechts één deel van een veel bredere het spioneren inspanning was, de Washington Post die in zijn uitgave van de Woensdag wordt gemeld.

De directeur van Nationale Intelligentie Mike McConnell schreef in een brief dat andere aspecten van het binnenlandse het spioneren van het Nationale Agentschap van de Veiligheid programma geclassificeerd blijven, de bovengenoemde Post.

“That is the only aspect of the NSA activities that can be discussed publicly because it is the only aspect of those various activities whose existence has been officially acknowledged,” McConnell wrote, according to the Post.

Bush acknowledged the existence of a program that monitored domestic phone calls and e-mails without court oversight in December 2005. The administration has not confirmed other secret spying efforts reported by news outlets, such as one that searched millions of telephone records.

Bush signed an executive order that authorized “a number of … intelligence activities” following the hijacking attacks of September 11, 2001, McConnell wrote.

The warrantless wiretapping program was put under court supervision in January but the administration now wants Congress to allow it to do many of the same activities without a court order.

The letter was sent on Tuesday to Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The letter was written to defend Attorney General Alberto

Gonzales, who has been under attack over his testimony to Congress about the warrantless spying program, the Post said.

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