[ziggy_dlo]

A majority of Americans initially support a controversial National Security Agency program to collect information on telephone calls made in the United States in an effort to identify and investigate potential terrorist threats, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll.

Sounds like it is controversial to the Washington Post newsroom, not to the public.

[Tarpon]

What bothers me more is all the co-marketing crap they put in with the bill.

[Savage Beast]

Once again the Left strikes out in its ceaseless, relentless, tiresome struggle to disparage President Bush and the Republicans.

ECHELON has been spying on U.S. citizens since the Clinton Administration and perhaps before then.

The Left--and its Propaganda Machine (the "Mainstream Newsmedia") and its Political Machine (the Democrat Party)--have never stopped trying to find something "with traction" to advance its agenda, to use to seize power, to avenge the "stolen election of 2000", etc., et al., ad nauseum, blah blah blah blah.

The American people are fed up with the anti-American, psychotic, malevolent Left, its Propaganda Machine and its Political Machine.

The Spirit of America is the Spirit of Flight 93--NOT "the spirit of Woodstock" or "the spirit of the Manson Family" or "the spirit of Jim Jones and Guiana Koolade" (as the Left would have you believe).

This is the response of the American people to the anti-American Left:

The Spirit of Flight 93 is the Spirit of America!

9/11 was never repeated--thanks to President Bush and his surveillance program!

[kjam22]

You know... I'm in the 66%. If they want to count or keep track of the number of times I call my wife, friends from church, and to check on my mom.... I guess let em' count. I don't care.

[Wolfie]

Probably support a gun registry too (assuming there already isn't one).

[ghost of nixon]

A majority of Americans initially support a controversial National Security Agency program

by putting the word "initially" in there, the MSM is telling us they are still confident they & the Dem's can convince a solid majority of Americans that Bush is an evil, spying, dictator-wannabe.

[TChris]

Ever since hearing about this, the only reaction I have had is, "So what?"

Sounds like the majority of Americans feel the same way. Typical MSM fearmongering and hysteria.

[isthisnickcool]

Here is Bush at the NSA. Wow! Look at all that fancy Buck Rogers looking stuff on the screen! I bet that's super secret government stuff like this phone numbers matching system that takes a zillion phone numbers and does super secret things. Hey, wait a minute! That's not Super Secret stuff!

Tell ya what folks, as far as this phone number matching thing? I could care less because the federal gov't is horrid at doing these kinds of projects unless it's for the IRS and collecting money. And even then they outsource it.

They are probably spending millions on this and I wonder if they know for sure if the telcos are able to send them the "right" numbers from point-to-point from their records, especially the old records. Google "caller id spoofing" to learn more.

I personally think this phone number matching thing is a bit silly unless they are harvesting the old data to see if they can link the 9/11 types backwards in time to other people. If that's the case once they figure out (or not) what they are looking for they can delete all the base data for the phone calls. As far as going forward they would be better off taking their "bad guy phone list" and providing that to the telcos who can simply tell them if there is activity. The telcos are good at that kind of thing and it would give the feds near realtime data and it's be a inexpensive thing to do. Just have the telcos send the real-time hits to Jack Bauers PDA:)

[The Great RJ]

That same information appears on your cellphone bill and if you fail to destroy that part of the bill and just throw it in the trash, it is perfectly legal for anyone to pick through your garbage and retrieve it.