Thursday, May 11, 2006
9-11!, 9-11!, 9-11!
This mornings revelation in USA Today of the scope if illegal NSA intrusion into the personal lives of Americans has the Bushoviks and Our Dear Embattled Leader ginning up the noise machine to full "Henny-Penny" mode. Beginning with ODEL himself.
This proposition is highly doubtful.
What is more likely is that it is Constitutionally prohibited activity by the Executive branch that trumps a blue dress any day of the week. And the reaction of Sen Patrick Leahy is fully justified.
"The privacy of all Americans is fiercely protected in all our activities," he said. "Our efforts are focused on Al Qaeda and their known associates."However, if you consider the size of the program,
With access to records of billions of domestic calls, the NSA has gained a secret window into the communications habits of millions of Americans. Customers' names, street addresses and other personal information are not being handed over as part of NSA's domestic program, the sources said. But the phone numbers the NSA collects can easily be cross-checked with other databases to obtain that information.it sure looks like they stepped over the border a few times. Unless there really are that many Al Qaeda sympathizers in this country.
This proposition is highly doubtful.
What is more likely is that it is Constitutionally prohibited activity by the Executive branch that trumps a blue dress any day of the week. And the reaction of Sen Patrick Leahy is fully justified.
"Are you telling me that tens of millions of Americans are involved with Al Qaeda?" Senator Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, the committee's ranking minority member, asked angrily.Yes, it is Our Government and it is time for us to be heard.
Like Mr. Specter, Mr. Leahy made a link between the new charge and the administration's refusal to answer the many of the committee's questions about the security agency's warrantless wiretaps of calls between the United States and overseas in which one person is suspected of terrorist ties.
"It's our government, our government!" he said, turning red in the face and waving a copy of USA Today. "It's not one party's government, it's America's government!"
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