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amezriI hadn't seen this on my flist while skimming yesterday, and I meat to post it, but I forgot.
Congress reacts angrily to a report that the National Security Agency has built an enormous database containing every phone call made within the country since shortly after 9/11, with the information being provided by the nation's largest phone carriers.
AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth telephone companies began turning over records of tens of millions of their customers' phone calls to the National Security Agency program shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, said USA Today, citing anonymous sources it said had direct knowledge of the arrangement.
"We have been in full compliance with the law and we are committed to our customers' privacy," said Bob Varettoni, a spokesman for Verizon.
Is that bit I bolded an oxymoron? How can you comply with the law and still uphold privacy?
One big telecommunications company, Qwest, has refused to turn over records to the program, the newspaper said, because of privacy and legal concerns.
Yay, Qwest. I love you.
I heard during a report on the news this morning one senator say that this was necessary because, "we are in a state of war," and that is just total bullshit. We are not being bombed every day by people from our own country. The terrorists are organizing themselves outside normal lines of communications. In the same report, Bush states that this is not, "fishing or trolling." This is fucking ridiculous. We follow this with...
DOJ Drops Wiretap Investigation Saying its lawyers were denied security clearance by the National Security Agency, the Justice Department abruptly ends its probe into the Bush administration's domestic eavesdropping program.
Bush's decision to authorize the largest U.S. spy agency to monitor people inside the United States, without warrants, generated a host of questions about the program's legal justification.
The administration has vehemently defended the eavesdropping, saying the NSA's activities were narrowly targeted to intercept international calls and e-mails of Americans and others inside the U.S. with suspected ties to the al-Qaida terror network.
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thebigfatman and I were talking about it last night and we think that they've actually got recordings of private conversations. You know, just normal people talking about normal things. I think she saw an article somewhere... I haven't seen it, but I am totally not surprised.
There are mor articles, I'm sure. I just haven't had time to go looking between yesterday afternoon and right now. So, you know. link if you have 'em.
Congress reacts angrily to a report that the National Security Agency has built an enormous database containing every phone call made within the country since shortly after 9/11, with the information being provided by the nation's largest phone carriers.
AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth telephone companies began turning over records of tens of millions of their customers' phone calls to the National Security Agency program shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, said USA Today, citing anonymous sources it said had direct knowledge of the arrangement.
"We have been in full compliance with the law and we are committed to our customers' privacy," said Bob Varettoni, a spokesman for Verizon.
Is that bit I bolded an oxymoron? How can you comply with the law and still uphold privacy?
One big telecommunications company, Qwest, has refused to turn over records to the program, the newspaper said, because of privacy and legal concerns.
Yay, Qwest. I love you.
I heard during a report on the news this morning one senator say that this was necessary because, "we are in a state of war," and that is just total bullshit. We are not being bombed every day by people from our own country. The terrorists are organizing themselves outside normal lines of communications. In the same report, Bush states that this is not, "fishing or trolling." This is fucking ridiculous. We follow this with...
DOJ Drops Wiretap Investigation Saying its lawyers were denied security clearance by the National Security Agency, the Justice Department abruptly ends its probe into the Bush administration's domestic eavesdropping program.
Bush's decision to authorize the largest U.S. spy agency to monitor people inside the United States, without warrants, generated a host of questions about the program's legal justification.
The administration has vehemently defended the eavesdropping, saying the NSA's activities were narrowly targeted to intercept international calls and e-mails of Americans and others inside the U.S. with suspected ties to the al-Qaida terror network.
thebigfatman and I were talking about it last night and we think that they've actually got recordings of private conversations. You know, just normal people talking about normal things. I think she saw an article somewhere... I haven't seen it, but I am totally not surprised.There are mor articles, I'm sure. I just haven't had time to go looking between yesterday afternoon and right now. So, you know. link if you have 'em.
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