Monday, March 27, 2006
Wire Taps 1/2/06
Did you ever call or email a friend and say something like, “Did you see the report on TV of the latest Bin Laden tape?” If you did, there is every possibility that your call or email was data mined. As things stand at the moment, we have no idea if this is true, but how does that make you feel? We already know they have been listening to Quaker meetings and groups that are against the war. What’s to stop them from listening to other political parties? (Watergate again?)
Do you really think that our enemies don’t know that we wire tap? After all, they were clever enough to plan 9/11? Every kid in the world who ever watched TV or a movie knows about wire tapping!
If this is now such a terrifying specter that we need an urgent criminal investigation into who leaked “national security information” to the Times, then why wasn’t an investigation called a year ago when the administration first found out about the story. Instead of calling for an investigation, the president asked the Times to not publish. How come, now that it’s public, we suddenly need an investigation?
Why is the administration and media telling us we need no oversight over the NSA (National Security Agency)? In 1978, the congress passed the FISA laws. The FISA law allows wire tapping for days before having to tell the court. The court said yes to virtually everything. What was being tapped that they needed go around the court?
Let’s not loose this Republic.
Do you really think that our enemies don’t know that we wire tap? After all, they were clever enough to plan 9/11? Every kid in the world who ever watched TV or a movie knows about wire tapping!
If this is now such a terrifying specter that we need an urgent criminal investigation into who leaked “national security information” to the Times, then why wasn’t an investigation called a year ago when the administration first found out about the story. Instead of calling for an investigation, the president asked the Times to not publish. How come, now that it’s public, we suddenly need an investigation?
Why is the administration and media telling us we need no oversight over the NSA (National Security Agency)? In 1978, the congress passed the FISA laws. The FISA law allows wire tapping for days before having to tell the court. The court said yes to virtually everything. What was being tapped that they needed go around the court?
Let’s not loose this Republic.
# posted by Florence Vincent @ 5:18 PM 
