An aspect of the NSA call monitoring in the first Bush administration that I hadn't realized until now was how immediately it was set up. If allegations in cour

An aspect of the NSA call monitoring in the first Bush administration that I hadn't realized until now was how immediately it was set up. If allegations in court filings are true [1], it was initiated in February 2001, barely a month after Bush was sworn in, and not in response to 9/11. So it really does seem like something the administration wanted, not a hasty overreaction. [1] http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=abIV0cO64zJE&refer= http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=abIV0...