Posted on 12/31/2005 11:16:45 PM PST by WaterDragon
In fact, has Bush ever listened to one of your phone conversations? Unless you have spoken to a terrorist, the answer is no. Do you speak to terrorists? If you do, the answer is yes. Here is how it works.
Every president for decades has had the ability to do it. The technology has changed with the advent of cell phones and the advances in computers, but the point is the same. It used to be done with people doing the listening. Then, a clever geek came up with voice recognition software. After that, a computer could do the listening.
The software program listens for words like dynamite, bomb, hijack and nuke, plus related words like C-4 (a type of explosive), detonator, cockpit and radioactive. It listens for these and many other words in lots of languages. It pays attention to foreign area codes, even specific foreign phone numbers. When our spy guys have recordings of the voices of known terrorists, the computers probably look for those, too. There's a whole list of things like these that the computers look for...
(Excerpt) Read more at oregonmag.com ...
-The leader of the free world doesn't have time to listen to your terrorist conversations. That's why we have the NSA and other intelligence-gathering services.-
Even they don't have the time/resources to listen to everything that SHOULD be listened to. It's ludicrous to think that those listening care about conversations outside the most plausible.
If he is, he must be bored out of his mind.
If he is, I will mention more often that I love him, but I want the borders closed and NOW.
Hey, W!
If he is, it would only take 5 minutes of listening to my teenage daughter to make him hang up.
For those who do not like the U.S., there are many other nations to choose from, as a new place to reside in. We won't stop you...
Well, at least then I'd know somebody's listening when I speak!
I know the feeling, I know the feeling.... :)
Thankyou Hugin,
Another piece to the puzzle connected that I could never understand. There was nothing like that reported by the UK media. They made everything look as though the US was charging an innocent man and it was just a spiteful act by the Republicans. I always told everyone while there he wasn't innocent and there were so many other things he was guilty of and not charged with, but it always fell on deaf ears. You've also explained and cleared up why Ken Starr fell out of favour with the Rep's, and rightly so.
I can see the difficulty finding 12 impartial jurors as in my book Clinton was guilty the day he was born and has never done an honest thing in his life.
I hope so. I could use some help with my delinquent terrorist renter in unit H.
We all are, and Thank You Jesus.
Hmmm. It sounds like the Sieve of Areafiftyonetomes.
(For those who don't get the reference, a technique for finding Prime Numbers was called the "Sieve of Eratosthenes"." First it eliminated all the even numbers, then those divisible by three, and then continued "sieving" for the remaining primes.) It's just the sort of thing you'd want your off-duty billion dollar weather computer to be doing.
I believe the Pres reads all posts on FR. He does not reply to posts, but once he has left office--look out!
Wow devolve, love your 'eagle-flag' gif!
I encourage the ACLU and DNC to file for injunctive relief, in order to insure the protection al-Qaida's privacy.
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