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May 12, 2006
Next stop: sedition
In an attempt to rekindle the scaremongering of the paranoid left, USA today has taken upon itself to "declassify" more classified information about programs aimed at protecting us. Obviously they decided that there wasn’t already enough damage done to national security...why is all of this news coming out about the NSA now? Well, of course it is an orchestrated effort, and it is only the beggining. It is going to get a lot uglier as Bush tries to get Gen. Hayden approved to run the CIA.
The American public isn't being fooled, reports the Wash Post - a new survey found that 63 percent of Americans said they found the NSA program to be an acceptable way to investigate terrorism, including 44 percent who strongly endorsed the effort. Another 35 percent said the program was unacceptable, which included 24 percent who strongly objected to it.A slightly larger majority--66 percent--said they would not be bothered if NSA collected records of personal calls they had made, the poll found.
Posted by bill at May 12, 2006 12:26 PM
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What I find particularly egregious is the outright fraud being committed by the mainstream media. They keep calling the NSA activity "eavesdropping" and raising all kinds of alarms about "Big Brother" and invasions of privacy. While I am a staunch proponent of privacy rights, I fail to see how what the NSA is doing can invade anyone's privacy.
Sen. Wayne Allard said the White House told him that the NSA was using the data to analyze calling patterns in order to detect and track suspected terrorist activity. (Yes, the MSM is also not reporting that Congress knew about this program long ago.) However, telephone customers' names, addresses and other personal information have NOT been given to NSA as part of this program.
Seems to me like all the NSA probably has is lists of numbers and the dates and times they're being called so it can try to find patterns. If that helps identify those in the US who are in communication with known or suspected terrorists, how is that a bad thing?
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at May 12, 2006 02:24 PM
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