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Hillary Clinton 'Deeply Disturbed' Over NSA Surveillance
Newsmax.com ^ | 5/12/06

Posted on 05/13/2006 8:27:44 PM PDT by peggybac

2008 presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton said Thursday that she was "deeply disturbed" to learn that the National Security Agency was data-mining phone records to track down terrorists.

"Like many Americans, I am deeply disturbed" over the NSA program, she said in a statement posted to her Senate web site.

"We all deserve to know why the NSA has blocked the Department of Justice from investigating the NSA’s domestic surveillance program and why it has created an enormous database of Americans’ phone records," she complained.

Mrs. Clinton suggested that using phone records to track down terrorists was unconstitutional, saying the latest NSA revelations "further demonstrate what happens to our Constitution, laws, and privacy when there is no meaningful congressional oversight of the president’s actions.

She urged Congress to "get the bottom of this." "I join my colleagues on both sides of the aisle in demanding answers about the NSA’s domestic surveillance program and the NSA’s use of Americans’ phone records. We must defend our homeland while also defending our Constitution, laws, and privacy."


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 109th; clintonspying; deeplyfullofit; echelon; eschelon; hillary; nsa; spying
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Of all people to talk about defending our Constitution, laws and privacy.
1 posted on 05/13/2006 8:27:47 PM PDT by peggybac
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To: peggybac

Hmm...I wonder why she doesn't want anyone looking in her phone records.


2 posted on 05/13/2006 8:31:38 PM PDT by NavySon (The Republican Party: stamping out the REAL racists since 1860.)
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To: peggybac
Hillary Clinton said Thursday that she was "deeply disturbed"

Finally, the truth.

3 posted on 05/13/2006 8:36:16 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Self appointed RNC Press Secretary for Smarmy Sound Bites.)
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To: peggybac
She urged Congress to "get the bottom of this." "I join my colleagues on both sides of the aisle in demanding answers about the NSA’s domestic surveillance program and the NSA’s use of Americans’ phone records. We must defend our homeland while also defending our Constitution, laws, and privacy."

May 27, 1999 (Clinton era).... Lawmakers Raise Questions About International Spy Network

n international surveillance network established by the National Security Agency and British intelligence services has come under scrutiny in recent weeks, as lawmakers in the United States question whether the network, known as Echelon, could be used to monitor American citizens. Last week, the House Committee on Intelligence requested that the National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency provide a detailed report to Congress explaining what legal standards they use to monitor the conversations, transmissions and activities of American citizens.

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The finished report will outline the legal bases and other criteria used by United States intelligence agencies when assessing potential wiretap targets. It will be submitted to the House and made available to the public.

(snip)

According to the report, Echelon is just one of the many code names for the monitoring system, which consists of satellite interception stations in participating countries. The stations collectively monitor millions of voice and data messages each day. These messages are then scanned and checked against certain key criteria held in a computer system called the "Dictionary." In the case of voice communications, the criteria could include a suspected criminal's telephone number; with respect to data communications, the messages might be scanned for certain keywords, like "bomb" or "drugs." The report also alleges that Echelon is capable of monitoring terrestrial Internet traffic through interception nodes placed on deep-sea communications cables.

4 posted on 05/13/2006 8:38:28 PM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal.")
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To: peggybac

That's funny. Coming from someone who stole over 900 FBI files to blackmail her opponents.


5 posted on 05/13/2006 8:39:43 PM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Liberals are blind. They are the dupes of Leftists who know exactly what they're doing.)
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To: NavySon

"Hmm...I wonder why she doesn't want anyone looking in her phone records."

If you were her, you wouldn't either. Then again neither would John Gotti.


6 posted on 05/13/2006 8:39:56 PM PDT by No Truce With Kings (The opinions expressed are mine! Mine! MINE! All Mine!)
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To: peggybac

You can't expect a ditzy blonde like Hillary to understand. Intelligence gathering and war stuff is over her head.


7 posted on 05/13/2006 8:40:41 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Remember the Alamo!)
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To: peggybac

Hillary Clinton has be 'deeply disturbed' at least since her teen years.


8 posted on 05/13/2006 8:41:46 PM PDT by jerry639
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To: peggybac

Words fail me. This program in Hillarys hands would be used against DOMESTIC political enemies..


9 posted on 05/13/2006 8:41:51 PM PDT by cardinal4 (Kerry-Mcarthy in 2008!)
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To: peggybac
This from the witch who sicked the IRS on George Putnam and many other critics of her husband's utterly corrupt administration.

Believe me, if she ever got the chance she would use every tool in the intelligence arsenal to squelch dissent here in the U. S.!

After all -- it would be for the "common good".

10 posted on 05/13/2006 8:44:16 PM PDT by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe

Please let this dizzy dip run on the RAT ticket for President.


11 posted on 05/13/2006 8:44:50 PM PDT by Logical me (Oh, well!!!)
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To: cardinal4
Words fail me. This program in Hillarys hands would be used against DOMESTIC political enemies..

See link #4 ( New York Times). Clinton used it when there was no war, but also monitored voice messages and emails. They had an investigation, and the democrats supported the spying on American citizens when Clinton was president.

13 posted on 05/13/2006 8:45:58 PM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal.")
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To: peggybac

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

This is the December 2005 NYT article which says what today's USA Today article says regarding NSA collecting phone numbers.

Clearly, Democrats (and some RINOs) have manufactured their outrage over this already reported on program. LOL

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/24/politics/24spy.html?ei=5090&en=016edb46b79bde83&ex=1293080400&pagewanted=print


14 posted on 05/13/2006 8:47:28 PM PDT by Peach
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To: peggybac

Who cares what she says? Hillary Clinton takes care of Hillary Clinton.


15 posted on 05/13/2006 8:49:05 PM PDT by Tzimisce (How Would Mohammed Vote? Hillary for President! www.dndorks.com)
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To: peggybac

Perhaps she could have Craig Livingstone look over the records and see if anything interesting turns up.


16 posted on 05/13/2006 8:49:47 PM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: peggybac

This is the creature who had how many files in her private closet and claimed she didn't know how they got there?

This is the mass of evil protoplasm who routinely used the FBI and the IRS to intimidate and abuse enemies--that is folks who told the truth or might tell the truth about her and her co-felon-in-chief!

The main thing she's probably upset about is that she wasn't the head of the program and that she didn't have them recording all calls on her private acres of computers.

What a wretched disgrace to humanity that creature is.

--Qx borrowing JM's computer. I'm still having fits trying to get mine working. Norton seems hung with Zone labs and I can't get Norton uninstalled no matter what I do. Sigh.


17 posted on 05/13/2006 8:50:15 PM PDT by JockoManning (Listen Online http://www.klove.com)
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To: peggybac

I'd explain it to her lowness, but she's too stoopid and her fingers too deep into her ears while she intones 'bush lied' like a chanting monk-ey. It's amazing how much demagoguery is spittled out by the democraps and lapped up by their media whores.


18 posted on 05/13/2006 8:50:38 PM PDT by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
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To: peggybac
Hillary Clinton said Thursday that she was is "deeply disturbed"

That is all we need to know about Hillary.

19 posted on 05/13/2006 8:50:40 PM PDT by capt. norm (W.C. Fields: "Hollywood is the gold cap on a tooth that should have been pulled out years ago.")
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I don't think ditzy blond is going to be something that sinks that ship. The two faced liar- devil in pantsuit-can't have her without him-stole from the White House on the way out-FBI files-I can't go on----


20 posted on 05/13/2006 8:51:13 PM PDT by mojo114
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