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Although we have made significant progress in securing the homelandand fighting terrorism overseas, complacency about the challenge of Islamist terrorism will prove to be deadly. We must use newsecurity procedures, education, technologies, and intelligencesources that can detect and prevent terrorist attacks againstAmerican interests and citizens, especially overseas.

Bush became President in the year 2000. That was — break my break out my calculator — 2021 – 2000 = 21 years ago. It occurs to me that our younger readers, born in 2000, or even 1990, may not know how genuinely horrid Bush was, as President. I was blogging even back then, and I remember how horrid Bush was; certainly worse than Trump, at least for Trump’s first three years in office, until the Covid pandemic. To convey the full horror of the Bush years would not a series of posts, but a...

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out whats clicking on Foxnews.com. As former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, I remember the intense debate on the National Security Agency’s Terrorist Surveillance Program (TSP) and how up in arms the media got about U.S. intelligence agencies being used to "spy on Americans" when the program was illegally disclosed to the press by disgruntled NSA employee Edward Snowden in the mid-2000s.  Things changed drastically during the Obama ...

On the fact that these judges are going to take into consideration all evidence and the fbi is going to be honest in its interactions with the court. and because we now know that the fbi intentionally mislead the court, then, you know, that means people are going to call into question whether or not this court should continue to exist. there is a number of fisa prifingses of the u.s.a. patriot act that come up in march there is a lot of people like rand paul and others been very critical of even...

Wiretapping program. when you were in the white house in 2001, did you ever work with john uh on the constitutional implications of a warrantless surveillance program? >> were talking about a lot of different things, senator. >> warrantless surveillance program. >> that is talking about a lot of different things. so when you were asking about right there was the specific -- what president bush called the terrorist surveillance program, that was his name for it. >> this which is a warrantless sur...

Hypothetical question. >> and sense i gave yator is gl. thank you very much. july 21, 1993. i certainly dont want you to have to lay out a test here in the abstract which might determine what your vote or your test would be in a case you have yet to see that may welcome before the supreme court. that was wise counsel by senator lee in the ginsburg confirmation. very directly, did you ever knowingly participate in stealing anything from senator leahy or any other senator? >> no. >> did you ever...

Would be more -- they cant even focus in on the nsa report and thats why you arent seeing the coverage. yes, if it would have been president bush lets remember. president obama spent his eight years blaming president bush. it could have been front and center and president bush began with the terrorist surveillance program. >> when you politicize it its one of the reasons people are paying less attention. i think the idea is that you know what? the intelligence agencies have been trying to get mo...

Another and were really the two central figures in what is now the famous 2004 hospital room incident involving john ashcroft and the bush white house and a showdown over the nsas terrorist surveillance program. >> tell us more about that. they show up at his hospital room in the middle of the night but go on, tell us about that. >> this was something that unfolded over the first couple of month of 2004, culminating in march when this program known as code name stellar wind was due to expire. an...

Donald trump needs to know about bob mueller and james comey." whats the answer? what does he need to know? >> these are two men who actually have had very parallel lives over the last 20 years. they have risen into the elite ranks of the highest levels of the justice department and worked actually very closely together in the years after 9/11 when james comey was deputy attorney general and bob mueller was fbi director. they have a partnership thats longstanding, deeply trust one another and we...

Affected details of this memo wp within a very tight circle of department of justice and fbi officials. that had to be a very tight circle indeed of andrew mccabe was not included in it. i want to close at one point about dreams comey and one one t about donald trump. james comey was formerly deputy attorney general and the bush-cheney first term. at a certain point, his boss, the attorney general, became ill and allocated his authorities come his powers, to the deputy attorney general, james co...