Federal Judge: Bush Administration was Criminal Conspiracy

By Jim Bovard • March 31, 2010, 9:21 PM

Federal judge Vaughn Walker ruled today that the Bush administration’s warrantless surveillance program was illegal.

This has been obvious ever since the New York Times blew the lid off of the National Security Administration’s massive surveillance operation in late 2005. It is amazing that the issue is still open to dispute.

Unfortunately, there is not a snowball’s chance in hell that busloads of White House, Justice Department, and National Security Administration officials will be going to jail for this crime.

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6 Responses to Federal Judge: Bush Administration was Criminal Conspiracy

Randal says:

April 1, 2010 at 1:42 am

“busloads of White House, Justice Department, and National Security Administration officials will be going to jail”

That would be a clear sign that America is on the road to being a decent, respectable nation again (rather than a rogue state).

Heck, the US might even get honest again and either live up to or honestly withdraw from its freely given treaty commitments to refrain from torture and to punish those of its functionaries who use or condone it, and to refrain from the unilateral use of force other than in direct self defence.

Hell will indeed freeze over long beforehand, I suspect.

One good thing about the followup to the Bush regime warrantless wiretapping and torture crimes is the way they have exposed the absolutely shameless and hypocritical complicity of the Democrat hierarchy, as well as the essential lawlessness of the US elite in general. Can any decent American vote either Republican or Democrat again?
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Tony J says:

April 1, 2010 at 1:31 pm

“This has been obvious ever since the New York Times blew the lid off of the National Security Administration’s massive surveillance operation in late 2005.”

After sitting on the scoop for over a year because exposing it might have ‘influenced’ the 2004 Election.

That ‘Liberal Media’, eh?
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Adam Rurik says:

April 1, 2010 at 6:44 pm

I’d be satisfied with Cheney, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft, Wolfowitz, Feith, Ridge and Yoo going off to prison. (I maintain that which I have always said: George W. Bush is a decent man who was neoconned into this bullshit!)
Barney Rebble says:

April 4, 2010 at 7:55 pm

The “Bush Administration was Criminal Conspiracy”

Per the article you cited:
“In the midst of the presidential campaign in 2008, Congress overhauled the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to bring federal statutes into closer alignment with what the Bush administration had been secretly doing. The legislation essentially legalized certain aspects of the program. As a senator then, Barack Obama voted in favor of the new law, despite objections from many of his supporters. President Obama’s administration now relies heavily on such surveillance in its fight against Al Qaeda.”

So remember, the “Bush Administration was Criminal Conspiracy” is the headline here