"The Bush administration's chief intelligence official said yesterday that President Bush authorized a series of secret surveillance activities under a single executive order in late 2001," reports The Washington Post. According to the report, "The disclosure makes clear that a controversial National Security Agency program was part of a much broader operation than the president previously described" and "appears to be the first time that the administration has publicly acknowledged that Bush's order included undisclosed activities beyond the warrantless surveillance of e-mails and phone calls that Bush confirmed in December 2005."