[yoe]

Ronald Reagan wondered what the Ten Commandments would look like had the Congress gotten their hands on them.

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[gathersnomoss]

There are approximately 300 Million people in the US. If each person made just 1 call a day that would equal 109,500 Billion calls in a year.

Last year the NSA monitored 1,750 calls....last year. You figure out the percentage. The politicians have this country's security by the balls for the purpose of bloviating. Now that the cat is out of the bag, each of them should be hung if we are attacked.

[mtbopfuyn]

Give them all lie detector tests but just for the fun of it, put a "T" on ALL their foreheads for "traitor".

[kevkrom]

Ronald Reagan wondered what the Ten Commandments would look like had the Congress gotten their hands on them.

I can guess that they were turned into 15,000 pages of federal law that had little, if anything, to do with the original content, and four new bureaucracies to manage them.

[davisfh]

"Let's start with the one thing we know for sure about the Bush administration's program to listen to al Qaeda's phone calls into and out of the United States: It's dead.:

And isn't that a pity? Thank you Democrats. You've done an excellent job of screwing up this country's intelligence gathering efforts. And, as another member of this forum said, you all deserve to have a "T" for traitor embossed in your foreheads.

[harpu]

And, the last paragraph in the article kind of says it all;

"At the Judiciary Committee hearings Monday, Sen. Leahy announced: "Mr. Attorney General, in America, our America, nobody is above the law, not even the president of the United States." Got it. But here's the bottom line on the surveillance program. It was going to work, and help lessen the chance of another atrocity in our America, only if it stayed secret. The odds of it staying secret would diminish as its existence spread through the Congress and judicial system. Now it is public, and its utility is about zero. What's left is the legal issue of whether it violated FISA. We can only look forward to the answer."

[sgtbono2002]

Democrat politicians on Capitol Hill are the best Agents Bin Laden has. No wonder Bill Clinton didnt arrest him when he had the chance, The whole party is working for him.

[MNJohnnie]

Ok, you have your position on this matter. I have mine? We fundamentally disagree How do we resolve it?

[UglyinLA]

*I wrote the following on Democratic Underground. Within 2 hours, my UserId, along with my entry and responses were removed from their website*

I live in Anaheim, home to Disneyland. I have been to the park many many times. The security there is no match for determined terrorist.

Thanks to the treasonist NY Times, the ability of the terrorist to succeed has been enormously increased.

At some point in time, one would think that you Democrats would come to your senses and realize that hey, if there is another terrorist attack, the public will blame the democrats because they, along with the MSM, exposed one of our most vital anti-terrorist tools.

Do any of you doubt that the next wave of terrorist is already among us? The question is, what do we do now? How do we monitor the Al Queda in the USA. Keep in mind that its your cities that are most at risk. Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York are all Democratic cities.

[UCANSEE2]

I disagree with the author of this article and his conclusion.

Echelon and Carnivore have been around for quite some time, and were used by the Democratic Administration (specifically Bill Clinton).

President Clinton used it to 'spy'
on his political enemies.

President Bush is having it used to 'spy' on America's enemies.

The system 'works' mainly because different 'listening' posts are located in different countries, and the data is shared.

Issues like diplomatic immunity go away when you are just passing info on to your coworkers.

Each participating country has made laws to manage the use of such information, and the need for that information.

As everyone can see, or should now see, it is the moral quality of the human being responsible for being President of our Nation that makes the difference, not the tool or the laws.