Great article today in the St Pete times. I won't try to take anything away from it, so I'll leave the link at the end of this post.
The gist of it is, Bush's warrantless wiretapping program in actuality exceeds the scope he described to the American people. A former AT&T executive states that he has seen some of the NSA's "secret rooms" where agents are filtering through millions of web pages and email addresses -- this is traffic that is originating and TERMINATING within our borders, which, according to Bush, was not supposed to happen. Does anyone else think this guy is an imperialist?
Here's the link. Enjoy and leave your comments. http://www.sptimes.com/2007/11/18/Opinion/In_the_US_of_A__we_ar.shtml
RB
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The craziest part of all of this is that they started doing it BEFORE 9/11. They've been data mining since the beginning. When they were finally called on it by the NY Times Bush said the NYT was 'endangering national security by letting them know we are watching them'. Yeah O.K. Like Osama had been using AOL instant messenger until he read that NYTimes piece.
I'd object to the pundits suggesting it's a slippery slope to think they might be listening to our phone calls, reading our e-mails. The government is using anti-terror techniques that have been proven to not work over and over again. Consider Maher Ahrar, Canadian flying to JFK, "extrordinarily renditioned" to Syria where he was tortured for two years and admitted to being all kinds of a terrorist. Then sent free and given a full apology by the Canadian government. He never did anything. He was a computer dude going to see his parents.
The onus is on the Government to show the people that they can effectively stop terrorists without freaking the hell out and becoming fascists, they're doing a shit job of that.
And I say no to immunity for the telecoms who rolled over so quickly.
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