Posted on 05/11/2006 4:18:19 PM PDT by Jay777
it was only a matter of time before the ACLU would chime in on USA Todays leaking of classified information about the NSA program. And here it is .
In a story released today in USA Today it was revealed that the NSA has been collecting call information about millions of American residents and businesses served by Verizon, AT&T and BellSouth. One industry insider referred to it as the largest database ever assembled in the world. The American Civil Liberties Union strongly condemned the Bush administrations most egregious abuse of power to date....
While Congress is investigating that, maybe they should also take some time to investigate the hypocritical practices of the ACLU delving into its own members private financial information. After all, that is much more intrusive, and has nothing to do with national security.
The American Civil Liberties Union is using sophisticated technology to collect a wide variety of information about its members and donors in a fund-raising effort that has ignited a bitter debate over its leaders commitment to privacy rights.
Some board members say the extensive data collection makes a mockery of the organizations frequent criticism of banks, corporations and government agencies for their practice of accumulating data on people for marketing and other purposes.
(Excerpt) Read more at stoptheaclu.com ...
ACLU Hypocrisy Ping!
So much for their obsession with privacy.
Some caller to the Hannity show (yesterday?) observed that the ACLU searches everyone's bags entering its building. Not randomly, but universally.
Typical ACLU. Typical, "we're the good guys so we can do it because we care".
. . . and then there was the donor database the Clintons illegally used government computers for . . .
They must be searching for more money, surely theyr'e not searching for security purposes.
You know what their trump card is...???
Abortion Extortion. When those two databases sinc up and they do a cross mailer the sh*t will hit the fan. Someone will overreach.
Democrats were okay with Eschelon and Carnivore which captured every phone call, every e-mail, every baby monitor (!), every ATM transaction and more, and that program is okay, pre war on terror, but this program isn't okay.
Eschelon and Carnivore information:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1543118/posts?page=1#1
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1542838/posts
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1543318/posts
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21387
Oops - Clinton's NSA spying program accidentally (ahem) captured a Republican's phone calls.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/1553101/posts?page=1
And just for kicks, the Commies insisted on FISA:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21453
Flashback: Gore planned to bug America:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1559386/posts
NYT called domestic surveillance a necessity when Clinton was president:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1556815/posts
Whats the difference in having the phone companies having you phone numbers and the NSA having them????
I think people protest to much to hear their jaws clacking....
There is one big difference. The ACLU is not a government agency. Even so, it does smell a bit of hypocrisy.
As James Lieleks just said on Hugh Hewitt's show......"they want Bush to CONNECT the Dots WITHOUT being able to COLLECT the Dots"!!
The American Civil Liberties Union is using sophisticated technology to collect a wide variety of information about its members and donors in a fund-raising effort that has ignited a bitter debate over its leaders commitment to privacy rights.What a huuuuge surprise.
Bah! So since they are not government seeking to stop terrorist, and instead are defending them in court...this makes it ok that they collect info on people?
A group of well-connected Democrats led by a former top aide to Bill Clinton is raising millions of dollars to start a private firm that plans to compile huge amounts of data on Americans to identify Democratic voters and blunt what has been a clear Republican lead in using technology for political advantage...Ickes said his new venture, Data Warehouse, will at first seek to sell its targeting information to politically active unions and liberal interest groups, rather than campaigns.
As it stands now, the DNC and Data Warehouse, created by Ickes and Democratic operative Laura Quinn, will separately try to build vast and detailed voter lists -- each effort requiring sophisticated expertise and costing well over $10 million.
-PJ
That name is too honest.
I'm for the centralization of databanks. It'll make it easier for some righteous hacker to do them in when the time comes.
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