On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 09:05:35 -0500, dxAce
wrote:



David wrote:

NEW YORK - The National Security Agency has conducted much broader
surveillance of e-mails and phone calls — without court orders — than
the Bush administration has acknowledged, The New York Times reported
on its Web site.

The NSA, with help from American telecommunications companies,
obtained access to streams of domestic and international
communications, said the Times in the report late Friday, citing
unidentified current and former government officials.

The story did not name the companies.

Since the Times disclosed the domestic spying program last week,
President Bush has stressed that his executive order allowing the
eavesdropping was limited to people with known links to al-Qaida.

But the Times said that NSA technicians have combed through large
volumes of phone and Internet traffic in search of patterns that might
lead to terrorists.

The volume of information harvested from telecommunications data and
voice networks, without court-approved warrants, is much larger than
the White House has acknowledged, the paper said, quoting an unnamed
official.

The story quoted a former technology manager at a major
telecommunications firm as saying that companies have been storing
information on calling patterns since the Sept. 11 attacks, and giving
it to the federal government. Neither the manager nor the company he
worked for was identified.

Nothing new. This type of activity has been going on for a long time and through
numerous administrations.



And that makes it right. It just boggles.....


LMAO at the unCONstitutional one...

Kaching ... chips in $10 for dxtroll co-pay so he can get his meds



dxAce
Michigan
USA