Comments on: Administration Careful in Talking about Classified Ops

By: Roger

Roger — Tue, 16 May 2006 01:44:37 +0000

We know you neocons want to replace the elected US govt. with a right-wing appointed corporate board, but that merger has not yet been finally approved by the shareholders.

By: legion

legion — Mon, 15 May 2006 16:38:00 +0000

Because we don't elect corporations, Mike. Nor do they have any responsibility to protect us. Nor are we obligated to fund their existence out of our salaries.

A corporation is answerable to its shareholders.
A government is answerable to its citizens.
These two groups are not equivalent.

By: Mike Thayer

Mike Thayer — Mon, 15 May 2006 16:23:22 +0000

So if this info is commercially available, why is it spying if the govenment does it?

The left just can't help showing how nutty they are.

By: Don Singleton

Don Singleton — Mon, 15 May 2006 15:31:23 +0000

Negroponte Had Denied Domestic Call Monitoring...

Talk about MSM distortion. The NSA is not "logging" those calls, they are getting records from the telephone companies of telephone numbers called for a database....

By: Neo

Neo — Mon, 15 May 2006 13:59:36 +0000

Based on these two links, I'd say that the latest NSA program is quite legal, well at least if they buy them, like everybody else. http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-privacy05.html http://www.democrats.com/spy-on-them This issue is moot.

By: Sister Toldjah

Sister Toldjah — Mon, 15 May 2006 13:06:26 +0000

Memo to the NYT/IHT: Trying to detect unusual calling patterns is not “eavesdropping”...

Our media continues to get it wrong on the topic of the NSA warrantless wiretaps/datamining program that was kicked into high gear after the 9-11 attacks. Check out the following headline:
Bush Aide Defends Eavesdropping on Phone Calls
Just as a re...