Posted on 01/05/2006 7:35:51 PM PST by Velveeta
So, a couple of hard-bitten reporters from the McCurtain County Gazette rooted up this story. Speaks volumes about the "ambition" and "capability" of big city "investigative journalists". It's amazing what you can do without a huge expense account.
"I'm racking my brain trying to remember who was president at the time."
I think her name was Hillary.
Link works for me.
Try this:
http://www.mccurtain.com/page1.shtml
there is still a difference between obtaining a list of numbers called, and actually listening (whether it be via data filters or otherwise) to conversations in progress. I imagine this NSA case involves both practices - examining number calling patterns, and monitoring the content of conversations to/from certain numbers on the "hot list".
Thanks!
Oh darn, just when I was depending on the Democrats to protect my rights.
I'm not a lawyer, but it does say that they would have needed a subpeona but knew the request would get turned down.
So instead, they took the entire database of phone numbers and bank records for every customer!
All those poor, innocent, unsuspecting American citizens had all that information on a government database.
Where's the database now?
That would be helpful.
Hey, Chani. :-)
Exactly!
"there is still a difference between obtaining a list of numbers called, and actually listening"
And how do we rationalize obtaining bank records?
I am no expert on this subject, but some other freepers are chiming in that the IRS can apparently do it without a judge's order. I really think the 4th amendment protection is very narrow - personal effects inside your home, medical history, etc.
That's what I have always understood.
But isn't the tracking specific to the suspect/s?
Can you track every single customer at my debit card company, in case a child abductor decides to call them one day?
This was the CLINTON administration which, of course, makes this entirely permissible, uneventful and a non-issue.
Case closed...please move on!!
Ping to youse.
Busted!!
Oooops, sorry.
You're right, of course.
Yank the thread.
~~~hanging my head in shame~~~
No soup for me.
Heck, they HAD to take those phone records.....
To expunge all the NON-homegrown/right-wing/militia contacts before an honest FBI investigator or honest investigative reportercould pull up any embarrasing links or incompetences of the Clintons, who felt the need to make OKC part of their "vast right wing conspiracy" nonsense
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