computerworld.com — A former NSA analyst's take on the NSA's warrantless spying: "The case involves fundamental issues related to NSA’s missions and long-standing rules of engagement. What's even more dismaying is the lack of public reaction to this."
May 25, 2006 View in Crawl 4
waroxMay 25, 2006
I would digg this twice if I could.It's thoroughly disheartening that there is a lack of understanding that we need to address other serious issues. The author mentions investigators pulled off of child porn cases to investigate a pizza parlor. The administration that approves of this privacy invasion under the guise of security against terrorism is reprehensible and unethical. It seems all those in power do is focus on their 'stay elected' tactics that garner support through fear and small-mindedness. I am reminded of the Ben Franklin quote: "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety" - <a class="user" href="http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ben_Franklin">http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ben_Franklin</a>
knightcrawler75May 26, 2006
I was in the military and was on a security detail. We were trained in how terrorists work and think. One of the main goals of the terrorists is to make the people paranoid of terrorist attacks. Thus the government would start executing programs that would slowly strip people of their liberties in order to find and eliminate terrorists. The terrorists goal is to take away that which makes America great. Its freedoms. So by preforming illegal wire taps though it seems harmless is actually playing right into the terrorists hands.
dorkaforkMay 26, 2006
The Constitution does not require it*, but the law does.(*According to court precedent.)
loonacyMay 26, 2006
It seems to me this TubaTechno guy suffers from BDS (Bush Deification Syndrome)
obkenobiMay 26, 2006
[quote]GW doesnt read News papers so maybe he gets his info from Digg.com.[/quote]He gets his info from Dick Cheney. He doesn't even understand half the things his speechwriters tell him to say.
geekeeMay 26, 2006
"The right people can make a SERIOUS PILE OF CASH with the kind of information the NSA provides. In the end this will be all about corporate espionage."Any evidence to support this or are you just spreading FUD?
jellygraphMay 26, 2006
One day we are going to be arguing the same thing, except replace NSA wiretapping with bar codes printed on the side of our temples and rounding up muslims who are shipped off to "clustering" camps in the name of national security.Someone doesn't have to be standing right next to you to be intruding in your space. Get it? The more the government is going to absorb information about its citizens, the more those at the top are going to be able to control us and, in many ways, without us even realizing it... use targeted dis-information and selectivily picking out threats and neutralizing them (and those threats aren't necessarily threats to you, the ordinary folk).Its about staying in power and making lots of money. And they are making lots of it right now, while everyone else is slowly going into debt.We are like frogs being slowly boiled alive... Oh dear...