It was GREENWALD who called out Bush and Cheney on ILLEGAL N.S.A. Spying back in 2007!

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66. Tons of people did it better and much earlier than Greenwald. Here are just two examples of articles

that beat Greenwald by two years:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/23/AR2005122302050.html

Power Play
By Suzanne E. Spaulding
Sunday, December 25, 2005

At his news conference last week, President Bush objected when a reporter characterized his use of executive power to eavesdrop on Americans without any court order as "unchecked." The president's sensitivity is understandable. As he went on to explain, the charge of unchecked power implies that he is asserting a kind of dictatorial authority -- precisely what Americans fought, and continue to fight, against in Iraq. But what are the sources of checks and balances of a president's authority? They are the Congress, the courts and, ultimately, the American people. Based on the facts as reported so far, none of these appear to have operated as an effective check on this extraordinary exercise of presidential power.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/16/politics/16program.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts
By JAMES RISEN and ERIC LICHTBLAU
Published: December 16, 2005

In 2002, President Bush toured the National Security Agency at Fort Meade, Md., with Lt. Gen. Michael V. Hayden, who was then the agency's director and is now a full general and the principal deputy director of national intelligence.

Forum: National Security
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 - Months after the Sept. 11 attacks, President Bush secretly authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on Americans and others inside the United States to search for evidence of terrorist activity without the court-approved warrants ordinarily required for domestic spying, according to government officials.
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Greenwald was very late to the game and never unearthed anything new. He had spent Bush's entire first term trusting Bush regarding the Iraq war, Patriot act and everything else.