google Carnivore, Echelon and Clinton... then get back to us!!!
Posted on 12/23/2005 3:40:23 PM PST by grigoriugrigore
WASHINGTON -- The National Security Agency, in carrying out President Bush's order to intercept the international phone calls and e-mails of Americans suspected of links to Al Qaeda, has probably been using computers to monitor all other Americans' international communications as well, according to specialists familiar with the workings of the NSA.
The Bush administration and the NSA have declined to provide details about the program the president authorized in 2001, but specialists said the agency serves as a vast data collection and sorting operation. It captures reams of data from satellites, fiberoptic lines, and Internet switching stations, and then uses a computer to check for names, numbers, and words that have been identified as suspicious.
The NSA's system of monitoring e-mails and phone calls to check for search terms has been used for decades overseas, where the Constitution's prohibition on unreasonable searches does not apply, declassified records have shown.
But since Bush's order in 2001, Bamford and other specialists said, the same process has probably been used to sort through international messages to and from the United States, though humans have never seen the vast majority of the data.
''The collection of this data by automated means creates new privacy risks," said Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a watchdog group that has studied computer-filtered surveillance technology through Freedom of Information Act lawsuits.
But even when no personal information intercepted by the NSA's computers make it to human eyes and ears, Rotenberg said, the mere fact that spy computers are monitoring the calls and e-mails may also violate the Fourth Amendment. The Supreme Court has never ruled on whether automated surveillance of phone calls and e-mails, without a warrant, is constitutional.
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Barbara Streisand. The rights stop at the border. Intercepting international calls/e-mails violates no constitutional rights...just like searches at border crossings before admittance to the U.S.
P.S. Happy Trolling!
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You had to post 2 threads to attract attention to yourself, right? Well....the Viking Kitties will be shortly, Abdul.
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Be careful what you live for: If that happens, homosexuals will be the first to go.
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google Carnivore, Echelon and Clinton... then get back to us!!!
The Admin Mods pulled the other thread.........they have left us this one to play with.
So, Abdul? What's up at the DUmp? Heard Skinner is looking for moderators.
Actually, there are alot of gay Muslims, particularly among the Nation of Islam (prison converts).
People need to realize that all of their voice and data communications, that are not encrypted, are subject to evesedropping if a sophisticated attacker chose to listen, and behave accordingly. If you want privacy utilize encryption. Otherwise stop whining.
Oh Echelon, come here boy. Sick on grigoriugrigore.
Anyone who believes their emails and chat lines and their Posts on Free Republic arent monitored are too stupid to be on the internet. If the Govt isnt doing it hackers are.
Cell phones are easily picked by a Scanner from Radio Shack. Get real. If you are scared maybe you have a reason to be.
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