Tuesday, 14 March 2006 - 7:30 PM CST
Oops. Maybe Dubya should ask him to remove it.
al Qaeda communications intercepted by NSA program: 0
Terror attacks prevented by NSA program: 0
Republicans running with NSA in 2006: 0
Tuesday, 14 March 2006 - 7:38 PM CST
Name: Toby
anonymous:
al Qaeda communications intercepted by NSA program: 0
Terror attacks prevented by NSA program: 0
You can't possibly know that, can you?
Tuesday, 14 March 2006 - 7:47 PM CST
Name: RiderNone have been claimed with even half a shred of evidence. The Faris case is often mentioned, but he was tapped after he plea-bargained based on evidence obtained through other means. I know what the FBI says. NSA is working with probabilistic math. It's bullshit. They couldn't find their butts if they were on fire. We've traded the Bill of Rights for a bill of goods.
Tuesday, 14 March 2006 - 8:16 PM CST
Name: Toby
Rider:
We've traded the Bill of Rights for a bill of goods.
Right. We live in such a totalitarian society that we've grown accustomed to the goddamned commercial media leaking NSA intelligence for our daily, public consumption.
Is that supposed to make sense? The American People have a right to know everything about our intelligence-gathering operations in real time? WTF?
One of these days, you're going to have to open up your TV to find out where all those people live.
Wednesday, 15 March 2006 - 6:02 AM CST
Name: Rider
"The American People have a right to know everything about our intelligence-gathering operations in real time?"
No, the FISA court has the right to know about it in advance or within fifteen days after the fact (in secret, of course). That's fine with me. That has never been a problem to the four non-imperial presidents preceding the current emperor. He, like Nixon, whose abuses occasioned the law, holds that if the presiden (he!) does it it's not against the law.
Wednesday, 15 March 2006 - 11:35 AM CST
Name: TobyFifteen days? I thought that particular provision was tied to formal declarations of war ---something this country has not made since the middle of the last century.