22.09.2015 - 08:35 [ New York Times ]

George W. Bush Made Retroactive N.S.A. ‘Fix’ After Hospital Room Showdown

President George W. Bush sought to retroactively authorize portions of the National Security Agency’s post-9/11 surveillance and data collection program after a now-famous incident in 2004 in which his attorney general refused to certify the program as lawful from his hospital bed, according to newly declassified portions of a government investigation.