PELOSI LETTER REVEALS KNOWLEDGE OF NSA PROGRAM

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi declassified a letter that she had written to Lieutenant General Michael V. Hayden, USAF the director of the National Security Agency on October 11 2001, one month after the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. In the letter she expressed concern about the NSA program instituted to wire tap calls to Al Qaeda operatives in the United States. Throughout the day this letter has been touted as the proof that the left needs to show that the program was illegal and that the President did not have the precedence to allow such a program without a court warrant. Their are two facts about this letter that I believe the press and the left have neglected to mention that clearly shows in Pelosi's own words that she had knowledge of the program long before she and other Democratic leaders have claimed and that the President again in her own words HAD the authority to institute this program. First, the Democratic leadership including Pelosi have been claiming that they only RECENTLY had knowledge of the program and that they were not aware of the extent of the surveillance. This letter by Pelosi was written October 11 2001, one month after 9/11 and more than 4 YEARS AGO. In the letter she indicates that General Hayden appeared before the House Intelligence Committee on October 1, 2001 and at that time informed the committee of the program and its extent which prompted the questions that Pelosi asked in the letter and that the General, " seemed to be inviting expressions of concern from us, " which indicates that she understood that the committee was being informed and assistance in defining the legalities were being asked for THEN and only the concerns expressed in the letter were addressed by Pelosi on behalf of the committee. A distinct contrast to the claims that she and other Democrats are expressing now as they lament that the program was illegal, yet when informed in 2001 never questioned as such. Second, one line in the letter stands out like a sore thumb in light of the claim that the left has made that the President did not have the authority to instigate the program. In her letter of October 11 Pelosi states, "Therefore, I am concerned whether, and to what extent, the National Security Agency has received specific Presidential authorization for the operations you are conducting." For Pelosi to express concern about the NSA having Presidential authorization indicates that in 2001 she realized that the President DID HAVE the authority to instigate the program yet in 2005 and 2006 she and her liberal friends are crying for an impeachment hearing claiming that Bush broke the law and did not have the authority. Now I ask you Mrs. Pelosi which story is true yours and your cohorts claims of today or your letter that you never thought the public would see from 2001 ? She has revealed her own lie with the very letter that she declassified in order to strengthen her false claims of today. She knew that the President had the authority then as she knows now, though will not admit, and she knew about the program which also means that the Democratic leadership knew of the program LONG before they are claiming. It never fails, give a Democrat enough rope and they will always hang themselves with their own words while trying to claim that they NEVER said them! This is political grand standing at its worst and a blatant and instigated threat to national security. As the Justice Departments investigation unfolds, Pelosi and her colleagues in the House and Senate who are participating in this game of political destruction should receive censure at the least or brought up on charges appropriate with their treasonous crimes. For those of you on the left who do not believe this an act of treason read Article III, section 3 of the Constitution which states concerning treason , "adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort." This IS aid and comfort to the enemy!


Ken Taylor