Clinton Made Eavesdropping An Artform

In their endless mission to pay back the Republican party for impeaching Bill Clinton by finding anything to impeach George W. Bush, liberal Democrats are once again using lies and distortion. Months after the overrated "Downing Street Memo" failed to bring down Bush, now there's a new smear tactic: the President supposedly broke the law by issuing an executive order to listen in on potential terrorists.

But the President didn't break the law, Congress knew what he was doing and since when are Democrats so concerned about Americans having their phone calls listened to by the gov't when Slick Willie made "spying" so convenient in the first place?

From Newsmax.com:

Clinton Used NSA for Economic Espionage

During the 1990s, President Bill Clinton ordered the National Security Agency to use its super-secret Echelon surveillance program to monitor the personal telephone calls and private email of employees who worked for foreign companies in a bid to boost U.S. trade, NewsMax.com has learned.

In 2000, former Clinton CIA director James Woolsey set off a firestorm of protest in Europe when he told the French newspaper Le Figaro that he was ordered by Clinton in 1993 to transform Echelon into a tool for gathering economic intelligence.

"We have a triple and limited objective," the former intelligence chief told the French paper. "To look out for companies which are breaking US or UN sanctions; to trace 'dual' technologies, i.e., for civil and military use, and to track corruption in international business."

As NewsMax reported exclusively on Sunday, Echelon had been used by the Clinton administration to monitor millions of personal phone calls, private emails and even ATM transactions inside the U.S. - all without a court order.

The massive invasion of privacy was justified by Echelon's defenders as an indispensable national security tool in the war on terror.

But Clinton officials also utilized the program in ways that had nothing to do with national security - such as conducting economic espionage against foreign businesses.

I'm sure the Democrats will want to investigate this matter after they're done looking like fools and coming up with nothing on Bush.