[Rhodes22-list] WTF?

[Jim Bunnell]

As usual, the media are reporting in a misleading way to get the most  
headlines out of the story. What is being recorded are the NUMBERS  
that call other numbers, not the conversations. If you're talking  
about a bag, nobody knows. So, if phone A calls a known terrorist,  
phone A's other calls are known. Note it is the number only, not the  
content. If our friend at phone A talks to someone on our suspect  
list, and then calls someone unknown, and this happens often enough  
to create a pattern, then a warrant to listen to the conversations  
can be obtained. This is what the oversight committee of Congress  
approved, and it has been going on for a long time.

Additionally-
By GARY LANGER and DALIA SUSSMAN



May 12, 2006 — Americans by nearly a 2-1 ratio call the surveillance  
of telephone records an acceptable way for the federal government to  
investigate possible terrorist threats, expressing broad unconcern  
even if their own calling patterns are scrutinized.

Lending support to the administration's defense of its anti-terrorism  
intelligence efforts, 63 percent in this ABC News/Washington Post  
poll say the secret program, disclosed Thursday by USA Today, is  
justified, while far fewer, 35 percent, call it unjustified.



On May 11, 2006, at 11:57 PM, Slim wrote:

> So now mein furer is tracking all my calls and emails??!!
> He says no innocent citizen is being monitored.  No listening or  
> trolling.
> I guess I don't have a problem unless I'm talking to my man about a  
> big, fat
> bag of...(line went dead).
>
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