Have to Ask The Question

[xrayzebra]

How come no one in this forum is questioning the statements made
by the dimm-o-craps about the "wiretaps" that have been authorized
since at least 1981. How come no one is questioning their efforts to
look at IRS records by the Clinton administration? How come no one
is questioning Senator Rockefeller about his little handwritten letter,
where he confesses that he knows nothing about nothing. He cant
figure out a briefing he had, but talks to no one about it. By the way
wiretaps as used here is meant to be intercepts on international
telephones and other communications. Not the physical ones.

[JoeChalupa]

That's a good question.

[Guru of Nothing]

How come no one in this forum is questioning the statements made
by the dimm-o-craps about the "wiretaps" that have been authorized
since at least 1981. How come no one is questioning their efforts to
look at IRS records by the Clinton administration? How come no one
is questioning Senator Rockefeller about his little handwritten letter,
where he confesses that he knows nothing about nothing. He cant
figure out a briefing he had, but talks to no one about it. By the way
wiretaps as used here is meant to be intercepts on international
telephones and other communications. Not the physical ones.

If I sent you $100,000. would you quit asking these kind of questions here in the SpursTalk political forum?

[Nbadan]

Far as I know you still need a warrant to tap domestic phone calls, right?


Spying Program Snared U.S. Calls

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 - A surveillance program approved by President Bush to conduct eavesdropping without warrants has captured what are purely domestic communications in some cases, despite a requirement by the White House that one end of the intercepted conversations take place on foreign soil, officials say.

The officials say the National Security Agency's interception of a small number of communications between people within the United States was apparently accidental, and was caused by technical glitches at the National Security Agency in determining whether a communication was in fact "international."

Telecommunications experts say the issue points up troubling logistical questions about the program. At a time when communications networks are increasingly globalized, it is sometimes difficult even for the N.S.A. to determine whether someone is inside or outside the United States when making a cellphone call or sending an e-mail message. As a result, people that the security agency may think are outside the United States are actually on American soil.

...

But in at least one instance, someone using an international cellphone was thought to be outside the United States when in fact both people in the conversation were in the country. Officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the program remains classified, would not discuss the number of accidental intercepts, but the total is thought to represent a very small fraction of the total number of wiretaps that Mr. Bush has authorized without getting warrants. In all, officials say the program has been used to eavesdrop on as many as 500 people at any one time, with the total number of people reaching perhaps into the thousands in the last three years.

NY Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/21/politics/21nsa.html?ex=1292821200&en=91d434311b0a7ddc&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss)

It was just an accident, trust us!

:rolleyes