say what? I am all for the program mind you, but its a basic fact that the government has a list of numbers dialed. that's a fact.
I don't mind the program either. I don't know a lot about it, but I think that the DNC and MSM are spinning this like they did the "NSA Wiretapping", which they called Domestic Surveillance and Warrantless Wiretapping or Eavesdropping.
it is a TERRORIST SURVEILANCE Program.
The Dims and MSM make it sound like Bush and the NSA are personally listening to all your phone calls and/or screening your telephone records. There is NO way in heck that there is the manpower, equipment, time and/or desire to listen to phone calls of all Americans. It is simply logistically impossible. There was a caller on a local talk radio show the other night that said he was w NSA (used a fake name and the host said he had no way to prove or not if this guy was who he said he was, so we should all just make up our minds). The guy sounded credible to me.
He said he had worked on this program and they have special training and can only analyze/look at certain data. All they get are strings of numbers/digits (a guy from a phone company confirmed this). The data doesn't say SC placed a call(from this #) to OV at this # and they talked for x minutes. They create algorithms and analyze the data for, among other things, spikes in calls, etc. IF they find a spike - they may look further and/or if other situations arise and they feel the need to get caller info - he has to go to his supervisor to look at additional data (I believe to get the actual names and #s of the callers and callees they may get a warrant as well). The Dims and MSM are really spinning this one, but, the funny thing is that something like 66% of Americans who took a poll the other day said they didn't have a problem w it (the Dims are deeply troubled and deeply saddened).
Best,
SC