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Fifth, any telecommunications company that has provided the government with access to private information concerning the communications of Americans without a proper warrant should immediately cease and desist their complicity in this apparently illegal invasion of the privacy of American citizens. What company(ies) are providing private information about American citizens without warrants? Any such companies would face untold liabilities.

For someone who claims to have invented the Internet this guy is a moron. The NSA is not getting "taps from the telcos", they are using a "Metadata mining" operation by examining the header information on millions of digital data streams containing phone calls, e-mails, pictures, video, etc. This is being done by a massive array of supercomputers and no sentient being is doing the sifting until something pops up. No laws have been broken and no one has been "illegally wiretapped". The NSA is not a law enforcement agency and reports to Rumsfeld as part of the United State Military. All these nutcases whining about being tapped are nuts.

For someone who claims to have invented the Internet this guy is a moron.

I am rereading The Fifth Horseman by Larry Collins this week; it is about Libyia putting a hydrogen bomb in NYC.

On page 133 of a 470 page book:

"A few miles away at Fort Meade, Maryland, some of the twenty thousand employees of the National Security Agency skimmed through the most complex and sophisticated computer facilities in the world. Stored on them were the harvest of the NSA's world-wide eavesdropping systems, global electronic vacuum cleaners that scooped rations transmissions and telephone calls from the atmosphere, broek them down into key categories for rapid retrieval, then dumped them onto the NSA's computer. The information stored there had already allowed the NSA to foil a major terrorist operation on United States soil. Now the heirs to cryptologists who had broken Japan's naval code in World War II hunted for the word, the phrase, the message that would allow the FBI to foil this one."

How could they NOT know what has been going on for years????