Saturday, December 24, 2005
He knows who you've been calling, he knows what you have said.
And his name is not Santa. The NY Times gives us a taste of what the NSA has been doing that required the Bushoviks to avoid the secret FISA court.
I guess that all you folks using your new Christmas computers on your new Christmas high speed Internet connections should just remember one thing. Always say nice things about Our Dear Embattled Leader because He is keeping a list and you don't want Him to check it twice. (see previous post)
The National Security Agency has traced and analyzed large volumes of telephone and Internet communications flowing into and out of the United States as part of the eavesdropping program that President Bush approved after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to hunt for evidence of terrorist activity, according to current and former government officials.So they are pretty much listening to everyone and hoping to find the needle. No wonder they have avoided warrants, there is no way you could assemble a list of violated persons in 3 days, much less give a viable reason for each. But you can be comforted in knowing that the NSA did not have to do all this fishing alone.
The volume of information harvested from telecommunication data and voice networks, without court-approved warrants, is much larger than the White House has acknowledged, the officials said. It was collected by tapping directly into some of the American telecommunication system's main arteries, they said.
A former technology manager at a major telecommunications company said that since the Sept. 11 attacks, the leading companies in the industry have been storing information on calling patterns and giving it to the federal government to aid in tracking possible terrorists.Trade secrets? Not even a little worry about the criminality?
"All that data is mined with the cooperation of the government and shared with them, and since 9/11, there's been much more active involvement in that area," said the former manager, a telecommunications expert who did not want his name or that of his former company used because of concern about revealing trade secrets.
I guess that all you folks using your new Christmas computers on your new Christmas high speed Internet connections should just remember one thing. Always say nice things about Our Dear Embattled Leader because He is keeping a list and you don't want Him to check it twice. (see previous post)
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