NYT: Get Your NSA Stories Straight

Newbusters ^ | Dec. 20, 2005 | Mithridate Ombud

[Froufrou]

Dear journalists of the New York Times,

Perhaps you'd like to take a few moments to gather yourselves and figure out which of your stories are correct and which stories are politically motivated fabrications.

COURT SAYS U.S. SPY AGENCY CAN TAP OVERSEAS MESSAGES By DAVID BURNHAM, SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES (NYT) 1051 words Published: November 7, 1982

A Federal appeals court has ruled that the National Security Agency may lawfully intercept messages between United States citizens and people overseas, even if there is no cause to believe the Americans are foreign agents, and then provide summaries of these messages to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Because the National Security Agency is among the largest and most secretive intelligence agencies and because millions of electronic messages enter and leave the United States each day, lawyers familiar with the intelligence agency consider the decision to mark a significant increase in the legal authority of the Government to keep track of its citizens.

Reverses 1979 Ruling

[dougd]

A key point that seems to get missed in all this is, as W made great pains to distinguish several times in his Monday news conf: the program in question DOES NOT MONITOR - IT DETECTS - like detecting passengers carrying explosives onto a plane or detecting who might be casing a bank for a robbery by sitting outside it and watching activity - no warrant needed for those activities.

I'm sure they do go to FISA when they need to MONITOR an individual over a period of time, but what would a judge do if the request was to DETECT who might call a particular phone number or to whom a phone number belongs or where that cell phone is, or if it is active or any number of other useful intelligence related to detection.

[airedale]

The NYT answer would be that the FISA Act changed the rules and installed controls. I disagree with the NYT in this case based upon the limited public info but then again I'm not a liberal who is out to Get Bush

[Froufrou]

"All the news we see fit to create."

SNORRFLE!~

[Froufrou]

Can it be there's actually hope for Cornyn? I swear, I lovew being from Texas because we have such a 'legacy' in politics! SNORRFLE!

[airedale]

I've got the FISA Act. I was giving the NYT's answer to the question you raised. As I said I don't agree with them but I don't own barrels of ink like they do.

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[marty60]

These Presidential warrants are due to the TIME sensitive nature of the targeted call. If a suspected agent in the U.S is getting a call from OBL, the Dums and Msm would prefer that the investigators take 24 hours to get a warrant. The whole arguement by the left is assinine. Also they have the luxury of getting a Presidential Findings after the fact.<p. Since Jaime Gorelick specifically built a wall to prevent taps on the terrorists, Atta, et al. Could talk untill the cows come home, without fear that someone might be listening. For over ten years now the msm and the lefties in this country have been doing everything possible to give the terrorist a free hand to destroy Americans. Sick SOB's

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