Thursday, April 16, 2009

Congress tried

They passed a law with new expanded and flexible limits to give the NSA room to move and what does the NSA do? They go beyond the limits anyway.
The National Security Agency intercepted private e-mail messages and phone calls of Americans in recent months on a scale that went beyond the broad legal limits established by Congress last year, government officials said in recent interviews.

Several intelligence officials, as well as lawyers briefed about the matter, said the N.S.A. had been engaged in “overcollection” of domestic communications of Americans. They described the practice as significant and systemic, although one official said it was believed to have been unintentional.
That's our NSA, always one step ahead of the law.

Comments:
Immensely enjoy your blog, sir, not least the music. The sense in which you take Walt Kelly's most famous observation 'we have met the enemy and he is us' is totally understandable in light of the domestic terrorism report you refer to. But he knew the full dimensions of domestic terror quite well. He lived in an era when white terrorists overtly persecuted and killed black people. He was a subtle friend of gay people, embodied by Churchy la Femme. And he was one of the few to have the balls to publicly go up against Senator McCarthy. A Shakespeare in depiction, an uncompromising moral beacon in all matters. I think of him and IF Stone as cut from the same mold. They don't make 'em like that anymore.
 

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