House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi knew about Bush's NSA phone-call database

by vote Green

Sat, May 13, 2006 2:06AM

Isn't it time SF elect someone better able to stand up to Bush? Matt Gonzales, running as a Green, got 47% of the vote for mayor and almost won in a short and underfunded two-month campaign. Can't another Green do as well or better with more time and planning? SF can then send the first Green to Congress this fall and set an example for the nation. If not here, where? Everyone disappointed with Democrats in SF should register and vote for the alternative candidate with the best chance of winning. The time to act is now. Short of a victory in November, a third party candidate nearly winning in SF should give Pelosi serious pause as did Gonzales' run against Newsome.

U.S. PHONE-CALL DATABASE IGNITES PRIVACY UPROAR
RESPONSE: Bush doesn't deny widespread collection of information, invokes Sept. 11

Friday, May 12, 2006

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...Bush, who added that top congressional leaders had been informed of the newly disclosed program, as was the case with the security agency's eavesdropping.

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Bush did not say if any of those top figures in Congress had raised objections when briefed about the program. But a spokeswoman for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, said Pelosi had raised concerns when she was told about the collection of phone company records and the security agency's surveillance program.

Pelosi said Thursday she spoke with House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., and asked for a congressional review of the phone-database activities.

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- now she stands up, five years into the program, only after corporate media revealed the database to the entire US public

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