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Why the thick headed and dim witted repukes and their minions the trolls cannot (or pretend to not be able to) understand why this extremely unconstitutional practice is troubling (to say the least) has always lead me to believe that they truly would be happier living in the USSR.
you can't tell me that these were "random" calls selected to monitor... out of the billions of calls made each day they happen on "pillow talk" and phone sex calls of military officers??? really???
there are some differences between this and what Nixon did with Watergate... but the gist is the same.
They're gathering information on peaceful organizations... how does that help the war on terror.
don't EVEN get me started on listening in on the phone sex... if this Cournal was having phone sex with his gay lover, would the recording have been used as DADT evidence?
"We knew they were working for these aid organizations," Kinne told ABC News. "They were identified in our systems as 'belongs to the International Red Cross' and all these other organizations. And yet, instead of blocking these phone numbers we continued to collect on them," she told ABC News.
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Those damned commie subversives at the Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders!!! nothing but international terrorist threats, the lot of em!
/snark
seriously... dude, where's my country?
It was obvious this would happen.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...
The NSA activities were justified by a classified Justice Department legal opinion authored by John C. Yoo, a former deputy in the Office of Legal Counsel who argued that congressional approval of the war on al Qaeda gave broad authority to the president, according to the Times.
That legal argument was similar to another 2002 memo authored primarily by Yoo, which outlined an extremely narrow definition of torture. That opinion, which was signed by another Justice official, was formally disavowed after it was disclosed by the Washington Post.
the law is for everyone, is it not? what's a 'classified legal opinion'?
The Nazi Party instituted a great deal of privatization of state-owned enterprises during 1934-37, thus ridding itself of having to deal with them except through political means and demanding strict adherence to the Nazi philosophy and providing private profit along with revenues with which to expand the German empire.
While George Bush is not politically sophisticated enough to have accomplished exactly the same goals as the Third Reich, other Neocons have successfully achieved a number of their goals, this bailout of Wall St. among them.
I'm still pissed that Obama endorsed this Treasury giveaway. Isn't he aware that the foxes are in the henhouse? I'll vote for him, but I'll always believe we've been taken, once again, by the Bush regime. Everything done by this cabal of criminals must be undone as quickly as possible or this country is going to be lost for a long time.
If sexy chats have been monitored wouldn't those calls have been winnowed and selected by sexy key words entered by a spy functionary?
I guess there's always the chance some unlucky couple had unusual nicknames for private parts and various verb forms along the lines of:
Partner B-Oh Johnny, rendition binLaden deep in my cave...
PartnerA-Oh yeah, I'm locked on to some high explosive for ya baby.
If you're in a conversation and in the military... the beginning of the sexy conversation could start off as innocent as 'how was your day?'. One of the key words comes up in conversation, taping begins and doesn't end until you hang up.
the thing is... unless they're having phone sex at the office... how are their constitutional rights trumped by being in the military?
thank you dick cheney... I hope you and lynn have TONS of phone sex while you're on the road, and these guys record and laugh at all of it.
maybe some clips will wind up on the internet... for some reason I can picture them role playing, Sultan and the Harem girl?
okay, I think I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.
Now some want Caribou Barbie to carry it onward.
Well that's okay, kids. I mean they are more fun to have a beer with!
The intercept operators were just enforcing the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, enacted by Senator Sam Nunn [D-GA] and a Democratic Congress and signed by Democratic President Bill Clinton.
They had to keep listening to confirm that they're not gay.
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=_KXZbVhx7lk
or this:
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=CiZVcfFeus0
The Senate roll call is here:
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call...
Only 15 senators voted no.
Sure, the repeated tours, stop-loss maneuvers, & attempts to deny PTSD care are more serious and dangerous, but think of what the families of active-duty troops have been going through. Now this.
Anyone who's ever had a long-term long-distance relationship, living on those affection-crumbs sent over the phone, can relate to this offense against privacy. That's even w/o having your loved one in a combat zone. Have they no decency? (and I don't mean the couples talking sexy on the phone!)
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