Monday, March 10, 2008
While we argue about telecom amnesty
The NSA, which was the recipient of the bounty of all you communications, continues to do its stuff.
Thanks to Froomkin for the tip.
Two former officials familiar with the data-sifting efforts said they work by starting with some sort of lead, like a phone number or Internet address. In partnership with the FBI, the systems then can track all domestic and foreign transactions of people associated with that item -- and then the people who associated with them, and so on, casting a gradually wider net. An intelligence official described more of a rapid-response effect: If a person suspected of terrorist connections is believed to be in a U.S. city -- for instance, Detroit, a community with a high concentration of Muslim Americans -- the government's spy systems may be directed to collect and analyze all electronic communications into and out of the city.Siobhan Gorman has a long and detailed front page article in the Wall Street Journal today. Go read it and if you don't feel violated afterwards, you probably use too much Vaseline.
Thanks to Froomkin for the tip.
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