Posted on 05/11/2006 1:46:47 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA) speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, February 15, 2006. A Senate panel will ask U.S. phone companies about a new report that the National Security Agency has been secretly collecting phone records of tens of millions of Americans, including calls made within the United States. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters)
President Bush speaking from the Diplomatic Reception Room commented, Thursday, May 11, 2006, about a newspaper report that the National Security Agency was collecting records of tens of millions of ordinary Americans' phone calls. Bush neither confrimed or denied the report that AT&T Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., and BellSouth Corp. began turning over records to the NSA shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds) (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)
Hello? Hello?
Pinging for later
CIA director nominee Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden is seen in Washington, May 9, 2006. The National Security Agency, in charge of a domestic spying program, has been secretly collecting phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, including calls made within the United States, USA Today reported on Thursday. Hayden, who headed the NSA from 1999 to 2005 and was nominated by Bush on Monday as director of the CIA, would have overseen the call-tracking program, the paper said. (Larry Downing/Reuters)
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I'd be concerned too if this is what the media says it is. But how many times is anything what the media says it is?
Top secret phone database:
http://www22.verizon.com/
If the 'Rats ever do manage to ram an impeachment through the House, Specter will be one of the three Republicans to vote against the President at trial. "Thanks for your support in my reelection, George, but my first allegiance is to liberalism".
"We're not mining or trolling through the personal lives of millions of innocent Americans," Bush said before leaving for a commencement address in Mississippi."
There he goes again. Calling Americans guilty. Next he'll call us vigilantes for being concerned!
Right! Aren't all of these numbers and addresses available on the Internet right now for a price?
"We need more. We need to take this seriously, more seriously than some other matters that might come before the committee because our privacy as American citizens is at stake," Durbin said.
"We'll be way too busy to have hearings on judicial candidates. We cannot walk and chew gum at the same time."
I guarantee the phone companies' legal departments went over this with a fine tooth comb before they released any data.
There'll be an awful lot of huffin' and puffin' for a while.
As the Kerry campaign said many times in 2004:
The timing of this is suspicious!!
How in the Hell did you jump to that conclusion?
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Using data analysis to identify terrorist cells by blind cluster analysis of phone call patterns is in no way is search or seizure.
This is liberal hysteria meant for pure political purposes and some here seem to be lock stock with the liberals.
"We're not mining or trolling through the personal lives of millions of innocent Americans,"
Obviously they are mining and trolling so. The unnecessary modifier "innocent" signifies Bush means the millions of Americans are not innocent or if so, there was reasons why to think not at first.
The timing of this release doesn't matter. He can't AQ this one.
He must have missed the coordination meeting where they discussed when the NSA program misinformation was going to be leaked.
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