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| 2006/1/19-21 [Politics/Domestic/911] UID:41437 Activity:nil |
1/19 Can someone provide a URL for: "the NSA was basically wiretapping
everyone, not just suspected terrorists, and running a massive data
mining operation on it." All I'm getting is Russell Tice saying
"could be in the millions [of Americans] if the full range of secret
NSA programs is used", and the key word is "if".
\_ This was given as the reason for why FISA wouldn't work; because
they were following from Al Qaeda guy to everyone he called to
everyone they called to everyone they called, etc. I mean, with
guilt-by-association, everyone's a suspected terrorist.
\_ url please. I want to understand what "basically" means.
\_ Do people understand that the issue is not rather government
can wire citizens or not, but rather, a check-n-balance
procedure is in place to prevent abuse and provide a channel
for those who are wrongly accused?
\_ http://www.boingboing.net/2005/12/24/nsas_domestic_datami.html
(original NYT article costs money now)
\_ Thanks, full article: http://tinyurl.com/bb2f4 (chicagotrib)
I think the source for the NYT article is Tice.
\_ Admittedly, there is a bit of conjecture in my statement... |
| www.boingboing.net/2005/12/24/nsas_domestic_datami.html Saturday, December 24, 2005 NSA's domestic data-mining ops gathered vast troves of info A New York Times story today reports that as part of the Bush-approved domestic spying program, the NSA traced and analyzed far more data from phone and internet communications than previously thought. Snip: As part of the program approved by President Bush for domestic surveillance without warrants, the NSA has gained the cooperation of American telecommunications companies to obtain backdoor access to streams of domestic and international communications, the officials said. The government's collection and analysis of phone and Internet traffic have raised questions among some law enforcement and judicial officials familiar with the program. One issue of concern to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which has reviewed some separate warrant applications growing out of the NSA's surveillance program, is whether the court has legal authority over calls outside the United States that happen to pass through American-based telephonic "switches," according to officials familiar with the matter. The identities of the corporations involved could not be determined. The switches are some of the main arteries for moving voice and some Internet traffic into and out of the United States, and, with the globalization of the telecommunications industry in recent years, many international-to-international calls are also routed through such American switches. One outside expert on communications privacy who previously worked at the NSA said that to exploit its technological capabilities, the American government had in the last few years been quietly encouraging the telecommunications industry to increase the amount of international traffic that is routed through American-based switches. |
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