Even though NSA does not have authority to listen in, what keeps them from giving “suspicious” numbers to other security agencies? If I am not mistaken, warrants are no longer necessary for others to listen in.
Peace only through Liberty
rwj
Even though NSA does not have authority to listen in, what keeps them from giving “suspected terrorist” numbers to other security agencies? If I am not mistaken, warrants are no longer necessary under the patriot act.
Peace only through Liberty
rwj
I am afraid the phone intercept is just the tip of the iceberg that is sinking our rights. No aLQUEDA WILL USE THE PHONE. tHEY KNOW WHAT WE ARE DOING. There is a different purpose. Data Mining. They will know who you call and be able to acdcess all the available data about you,including party affiliation. Your health records,spending ,credit. Also the government is subcontracting this job to Choice Point. Greg Palast suggested that the data can be used to filter out the Democratic vote in 2006.Much has been written about the 2002 and 2004 election problems.This will provide better targeting.
How many people are in Al Qaeda? Ten thousand? A hundred thousand? When the president says, in those tens of millions of telephone records, they are looking only at people who have a connection to Al Qaeda, he must mean that every single Al Qaeda agent spends all day on the phone, thus staying out of trouble. Or, the president is lying, again. Do the math, people.
I wouldn’t know where to find a terrorist if I wanted to, but the NSA probably thinks I’m dirty because one of my doctors has an arab name, and his office called me to remind me of an appointment. Are you dirty, too? If you are under suspicion, you are in good company. There are tens of millions of us.
When your president is obsessed with secrecy and sees enemies where they don’t exist, you could be the enemy without even knowing it. When your president has a list of hundreds of laws and parts of the Constitution that he says don’t apply to him, there is no telling what will happen to you. If you are “extraordinarily rendered,” will your family be able to find out what country you were taken to? No. The president doesn’t have to follow those laws. Will you be tortured? Perhaps you will. The president, in his signing statement, says he doesn’t have to follow that law.
I have been wondering that nobody seem to be, not that I have seen, that the government can get the records of what you are lending from a library?
If the intellectuals in your country use libraries, then it is very easy to check:
- Are you lending critical to …-books?
- Are you a religious type?
- Are you a liberal, enviroment guy etc.
Those that watch FOX, they are probably not lending any books from a library…
Anyhow, this telephone thing does not tell what your thoughts are, but the library thing does.
I do not want to downplay this telephone thing, I am just wondering.
Henry
That is a good point, Henry-Finland. I sometimes wear a tee-shirt that protests government intrusion into our reading habits.
But not everyone in America checks out books. Almost everyone has two or three telephones. And the phone companies are not supposed to give out this information about us.
I think that next they will look at our bank records. You can tell a lot about a person by what they spend money on.
I’m sure snooping in to personal finances is nothing new. I’d just like to think it doesn’t happen on anywhere near as large a scale as this telephone thing.
I’ve about had it with Big Brother.