Oh Bush.....

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/07/psp/

The Justice Department is investigating whether the furtiveness of Bush's warrant-less wiretapping program had an influence on terrorism prosecutions by hiding exculpatory evidence from defendants, according to five inspectors general this past Friday.

The report (mandated by Congress), also warned that President Bush's post-9/11 extrajudicial intelligence programs involved unparalleled collection of communications, and the government needs to be careful about storing and using that data.

Senator Russ Feingold (Wisconsin Democrat), who sits on the Intelligence Committee, said the report showed the programs were "outrageous...This report leaves no doubt that the warrantless wiretapping program was blatantly illegal and an unconstitutional assertion of executive power...I once again call on the Obama administration and its Justice Department to withdraw the flawed legal memoranda that justified the program and that remain in effect today.”

The government has only admitted to eavesdropping on calls and e-mails, where one end was overseas and one person was suspected to be a terrorist, but has never officially confirmed that it "sucked" in the telephone records of millions of Americans or eavesdropped wholesale on the internet.