It's as if they were pushing for a court case on First Amendments rights before they lose the leftist Supreme Court.
Nah ... that couldn't be it.
Posted on 01/01/2006 7:33:31 AM PST by kristinn
Information captured by the National Security Agency's secret eavesdropping on communications between the United States and overseas has been passed on to other government agencies, which cross-check the information with tips and information collected in other databases, current and former administration officials said.
The NSA has turned such information over to the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and to other government entities, said three current and former senior administration officials, although it could not be determined which agencies received what types of information. Information from intercepts -- which typically includes records of telephone or e-mail communications -- would be made available by request to agencies that are allowed to have it, including the FBI, DIA, CIA and Department of Homeland Security, one former official said.
At least one of those organizations, the DIA, has used NSA information as the basis for carrying out surveillance of people in the country suspected of posing a threat, according to two sources. A DIA spokesman said the agency does not conduct such domestic surveillance but would not comment further. Spokesmen for the FBI, the CIA and the director of national intelligence, John D. Negroponte, declined to comment on the use of NSA data.
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Today's NSA intercepts yield two broad categories of information, said a former administration official familiar with the program: "content," which would include transcripts of a phone call or e-mail, and "non-content," which would be records showing, for example, who in the United States was called by, or was calling, a number in another country thought to have a connection to a terrorist group. At the same time, NSA tries to limit identifying the names of Americans involved.
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Sounds pretty good to me. The WAPO thinks Americans are going to be incensed by a President who takes seriously his oath to protect and defend? They need to get out of the Beltway.
It's as if they were pushing for a court case on First Amendments rights before they lose the leftist Supreme Court.
Nah ... that couldn't be it.
Of course they gave the information to other agencies- no point in eavsdropping, if nothing is done with the information given.
Once again- the WP does not realize that we are at war with terrorists.
One can only hope that when all the dots are connected the form of a MSM corpse will be revealed. Then we can all break out the crayons and color it dead.
Are they STILL on this?
Bah.. I'm back from a week in 'purple' NE Pennsylvania.
Every single person I talked to in my family (some of who had to think hard, but DID vote for sKerry) don't give a lick.
The ones that did know about it even went so far as to say they don't care anyway becuase they are only talking to grandma about sunday dinner, or when to pick up sis at basketball practice. Several even, almost guiltily volunteered at the end of the conversation "I'm actually glad they are listening on people calling Pakistan or whatever"
My 1st prediction of 2006.... the MSM and democrats will find some new toy within the 1st week of this year and moveon (pun intended). Perhaps we can force this issue if we get the DoJ to start investigating the Prison and international wiretapping leaks.
Oh No!?!?
You mean somebody that obtained information gave it somebody who could act on that information?
I wonder what the author was saying on September 12th, 2001?
How dare they!!!!
Didn't they read Gorelick's memo.
The Wall!!! The WALLLLLLL.
We must have the wall --- [to protect the Clintons from being investigated].
Hey, I've got an idea! Maybe we should spend hundreds of millions/billions of dollars monitoring communications around the world and then not do anything with it.
Sheesh.
As an American Citizen I have the 'right to know,' as oft expressed by you newsie types about secret activities of my government, just exactly who your... current and former administration officials said since these officials are sworn to serve the Amercan public I demand to know who those sources are.
Sincerely,
One Angry American
Government intelligence agencies working together? Excellent. Not working together, thanks to the Clinton/Gorelick wall contributed to 9/11. Thanks WaPo for showing our government is working on the war on terror.
Poor Wally Pincus is mad that his phony Plame scandal didn't pan out.
No doubt it's managed to get itself placed on both the Russian and United Kingdom nuclear targeting lists, but probably not that of France or North Korea.
Government agencies working together? This isn't news...what would be news is that somebody is getting fired because Government agencies DON'T work together.
Then, they might get a different perspective on world affairs.
We had a good rip roaring battle last night. Thanks to information from FR that I somehow managed to remember(I usually don't handle all out debate real well)several liberals at the party got shut down cold on their talking points.
The line that froze out the debate? "Name one US citizen that has had their rights trampled by the eavesdropping, name one group,"
"Uh? Well I don't know of anyone, I can't name anyone right now, but..." was the bumbled response.
I followed it up with, "Most of eavesdropping is between a phone from/to the US from a terrorist nation and most of these calls are not between a citizen and a terrorist...they are between two terrorists, which in my book are not citizens of the US."
Pointless stories like this feed the Democrat base, and make journalists like Pincus feel both important and holier than thou.
Shame on the Washington com-Post and The New York Slimes. They should relocate to France.
I care. Deeply.
That's the bind, isn't it? I don't want the government listening in on calls I or my family might make overseas. Not one single second of them. I'm a free American living in what is supposed to be a free society.
But, we are at war with a dangerously cunning and ruthless enemy.
At some point national and personal security does trump personal privacy.
Yep, that's the bind, alright.
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