Posted on 05/11/2006 8:44:43 AM PDT by hipaatwo
A Republican senator says it's time to "find out exactly what is going on." A Democrat senator is asking, "Where does it stop?" The furor on Capitol Hill is over a U-S-A Today report that three big phone companies have turned over the records of tens of (m) millions of calls to the National Security Agency, as part of a government effort to compile a complete database of phone calls.
Chairman Arlen Specter says he wants A-T-and-T, Verizon and BellSouth to appear before his Senate Judiciary panel to explain.
The ranking Democrat on the committee, Patrick Leahy, says he's angry that Congress will, in his words, "rubber stamp" anything done by the Bush administration.
The newspaper says the program doesn't involve listening to the calls. But it reportedly does seek to track every phone call in order to identify calling patterns.
Ahem...They do have the manpower to MONITOR all you do over the net and gloss over what is written by aid of COMPUTER PROGRAMS. I guess I should have been more articulate in my last post. Sorry for the confusion.
That's true, they can monitor for key words and such - whatever they've programmed the application to look for. I suppose the danger is, if we ever get a Democratic president, they could demand that the programs be changed to monitor for the words 'liberal dingbat' or something. They sure would get a lot of hits. LOL
I agree - I've just always been of the "shoot the traitors" philosophy.
>>agree - I've just always been of the "shoot the traitors" philosophy.<<
And I respect that and support your consistancy.
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