Point to ponder: Does either make a sound?
Posted on 01/06/2006 8:21:05 AM PST by InvisibleChurch
Friday, Jan. 6, 2006 11:10 a.m. EST Clinton NSA Wiretapped Top Republican
During the 1990's under President Bill Clinton, the National Security Agency conducted random telecommunications surveillance of millions of phone calls daily under a top secret program known as Echelon.
But according to at least two people familiar with the spy operation at the time, some of the surveillance was far from indiscriminate.
In a February 2000 interview with CBS's "60 Minutes," NSA operator Margaret Newsham revealed that the agency's listening post in Great Britain was involved in monitoring the phone calls of at least one top Republican on Capitol Hill.
Questioned by "60 Minutes" interviewer Steve Kroft, Newsham recalled how she learned of the illegal surveillance:
"I walked into the office building and a friend said, 'Come over here and listen to--to this thing.' And he had headphones on, so I took the headphones and I listened to it, and I looked at him and said, 'That's an American.' . . .
Ms. Newsham remembered, "It was definitely an American voice, and it was a voice that was distinct. And I said, 'Well, who is that?'
"And he said it was Senator Strom Thurmond."
Until his retirement from the Senate in 2002, Thurmond was a frequent critic of the Clinton administration, who played a leading role in the 1998 impeachment drama - though there's no known connection to the decision to wiretap the South Carolina conservative.
During the same program, however, Kroft consulted with Mike Frost, who worked for Canada's version of the NSA for 20-years.
Asked if it was commonplace for the NSA to monitor the phone calls of top U.S. politicians, Frost told CBS: "Of course it goes on. Been going on for years. Of course it goes on. That's the way it works."
Impeach !!
I pity the poor youngsters (and those that disdain older films)...
that haven't a clue what your post means.
my German professor in college said he was pissed cause it was his favorite movie but he couldn't stand to watch it anymore after turner colorized it... i told him to just "Turn the color OFF on your set." he almost freaked out he was so happy cause he didn't realize he could adjust it to B&W. he spoke five languages but was lucky he could turn the tv on and off... 8^)
Well, so what. Clinton and dems can do no wrong, ever. They really believe this, too. In fact, when that sociopath was President, a friend of mine, albeit a Liberal idiot, said she didn't care what Clinton had done, rape, murder, pillage, whatever. She didn't care, just as long as he carried out the Liberal agenda. Actually, she lost control and began yelling. We don't discuss politics anymore.
"One thing that is wonderfully predictable about the Democrats and their handmaidens, the media, is when they scream the loudest about some supposed Republican shenanigans it is they themselves who are up to their eyeballs in it."
Bingo. Whenever I hear the left making some ridiculous accusation that would never have occurred to a normal person, I figure it's because it WOULD occur to them. In fact, it's probably something they already did.
I think psychologists call this projection.
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Ha, I'd be interested in reading the list, no doubt about it.
Sorry, further reading...I see someone posted them.
I've encountered more than I care to list here who said/wrote exactly the same as to that "not caring" part where Clinton and crimes are involved. They're all over DU and other liberal websites...I think it mostly reveals that Liberals tend to not find any act or behavior a problem other than when someone isn't Liberal.
Either projection or transference. I call it projection and it sure is a reliable indicator into their activities. I suppose their strategy is like the magician using misdirection. If they, with the eager help from the media, can get everyone concentrating on the trumped up charges against Republicans, they figure any investigation of them can be forestalled or called sour grapes, proving that the Republicans are guilty.
Point to ponder: Does either make a sound?
I sure hope Bush has an operation in place that is tapping every scumbag Democrat phone call ever made throughout the world. I hope he is compiling a database of dirt on the scumbags that makes Hillary's FBI files look like a third-grade cheat sheet.
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May the Clintons and all of their goons rot in.... Well, you know where.
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American intellegence agencys are prohibited by charter from spying on American civilians. Same with British and Australian agencys.
So they cut a deal. Each uses it's full power to spy on the others civilians and does'nt interfear with the others spying on their civilians. They then report back any 'interesting' information to their partners overseas. A pissing contest was held when the English used infomation gleaned from their ops to help Airbus win a contract but mostly it's been smooth sailing.
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