According to this
Newsweek article, it would seem that the GW Bush administration was willing to go alot farther than most Americans thought in an effort to combat terror.
Per the article, "In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, the Justice Department secretly gave the green light for the U.S. military to attack apartment buildings and office complexes inside the United States, deploy high-tech surveillance against U.S. citizens
and potentially suspend First Amendment freedom-of-the-press rights in order to combat the terror threat..."
There's even discussion about imposing martial law if it came to that. All I can say is...WOW! And Conservatives are up in arms about what they believe Pres. Obama may do when one of their own was conspiring to take away (or at the very least subvert) our 1st Amendment rights right under our very noses.
Wow!!!
There's also a link to a
37 page memo from the Dept. of Justice from the Newsweek article that addresses the GW Bush administration's attempt to skirt the 4th Amendment rights of suspected domestic terrorist. Now, granted, if such individuals are not U.S. citizens, I could care less what happens to them. But if they are U.S. citizens, then regardless of their betrayel to their country they still have rights under the law. (Granted, I say they forfeited those rights when they became traitors, but the U.S. Constitution says otherwise...)
Again, all I can say is...WOW!!!