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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Wednesday, December 21, 2005

His lips are moving.

Alright, now we get to the crux of it on the NSA spying. This program is now alleged to have tapped into solely US communications. NYTimes.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 - A surveillance program approved by President Bush to conduct eavesdropping without warrants has captured what are purely domestic communications in some cases, despite a requirement by the White House that one end of the intercepted conversations take place on foreign soil, officials say.

Remember, just Monday at his press conference, Bush said this:

...you brought up something that I want to stress, and that is, is that these calls are not intercepted within the country. They are from outside the country to in the country, or vice versa. So in other words, this is not a -- if you're calling from Houston to L.A., that call is not monitored. And if there was ever any need to monitor, there would be a process to do that.

So, then, that would be a direct and blantant lie, wouldn't it?.

Also, OH, MY GOD, The Wapo prints this in support of spying on American citizens.
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act makes it difficult to conduct surveillance of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents unless they are suspected of being involved in terrorist or other hostile activities. That is too restrictive. Innocent people, such as unwitting neighbors of terrorists, may, without knowing it, have valuable counterterrorist information. Collecting such information is of a piece with data-mining projects such as Able Danger.
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