Date published: 2006/05/13
The BBC says:
US President George W Bush has used his weekly radio address to launch a strong defence of his administration's domestic surveillance programme.
It follows claims the phone records of tens of millions of Americans are being collected by a US intelligence agency.
Mr Bush stressed that all intelligence activities he authorised were "lawful" and "strictly target" al-Qaeda.
"The privacy of all Americans is fiercely protected in all our activities," he insisted.
"The government does not listen to domestic phone calls without court approval. We are not trawling through the personal lives of millions of innocent Americans."
Bush is still in the running for being the worst president of all time. The only reason he can claim that these activities are "legal" is because he believes he has the right to decide what is and is not "legal", independent of Congress and the judiciary.
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