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Is George Bush Listening in on Your Phone Line?
Oregon Magazine ^ | January 1, 2006 | Larry Leonard

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...

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: echelon; gwb; homelandsecurity; honesty; natldefense; nsa; patriotleaks; phonetaps; presidential; spying
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To: potlatch


Piper may be logging on your PC while you sleep


61 posted on 01/01/2006 3:26:56 PM PST by devolve (<-- (-in a manner reminiscent of Senator Gasbag F. Kohnman-)
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To: devolve

Woof woof!


62 posted on 01/01/2006 4:23:48 PM PST by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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To: rightinthemiddle

Hey, yourself, ritm!


63 posted on 01/02/2006 4:59:34 AM PST by WaterDragon
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To: WaterDragon
Is George Bush Listening in on Your Phone Line?

If so it is because he is an insomniac.

Heck they put ME to sleep and I am one of the participants.

64 posted on 01/02/2006 5:01:14 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud member of the Free Republic Humility Club. We are twice as humble as you are.)
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Wow. A thread on this subject without a lot of loonitarian anti-Bush sloganeering!


65 posted on 01/02/2006 5:05:32 AM PST by zook
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To: Hugin

Regarding the Clinton impeachment aquittal-
I heard everybody just turned chicken, and the Senate feared if they convicted him, their dastardly secrets would be brought to light, too. Anyway, since our wonderful Senators failed to do their job, look how much more trouble the Clintons have created for us all.


66 posted on 01/02/2006 7:07:17 AM PST by Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin
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