Bush In 2004 And 2005: "Any Time You Hear The United States Government Talking About Wiretap -- A Wiretap Requires A Court Order"...

Agence France-Presse   |   December 20, 2005 03:52 PM

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US President George W. Bush, caught up in a domestic spying controversy, for the past two years has assured Americans worried about expanded government anti-terrorism powers that court orders were needed to tap telephones.

In 2004 and 2005, Bush repeatedly argued that the controversial Patriot Act package of anti-terrorism laws safeguards civil liberties because US authorities still need a warrant to tap telephones in the United States.

"Any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires -- a wiretap requires a court order," he said on April 20, 2004 in Buffalo, New York.

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