EVERY Phone Call
By floor9 on May 11, 2006 in Rant, Technology
Generally, I stay out of politics on this site. It draws out the fringe fanaticists and doesn’t really jive with what the site is about. But when I read this, I absolutely, positively, without any doubt, had to point it out:
From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Congressional Democrats demanded answers from the Bush administration Thursday about a report that the government secretly collected records of ordinary Americans’ phone calls to build a database of every call made within the country.
Fox News: There’s a Sale at Penny’s!
There are dozens more stories emerging — check news.google.com. The best quote I’ve heard so far on the matter is from Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont): “”Are you telling me that tens of millions of Americans are involved with al Qaeda? These are tens of millions of Americans who are not suspected of anything … Where does it stop?”
I was uneasy when it was decided that we were going to monitor phone calls of “possible terrorists”. Now we’re monitoring EVERY phone call. Suddenly those “paranoid accusations” about “breaches of privacy” from the 2000 - 2004 elections on virtually every scale suddenly seem much more real. I’m hoping beyond hope that this is revealed as a hoax in the coming days.
Back to nightlife tomorrow.
It’ll sound paranoid and crazy, but I knew it all along.
Think about the concept of cellphones—tiny electronic devices transmitting tiny bits of data to towers and then off to a clearing house and finally to another tiny electronic device. Of course they’re storing all of that data!
The fuckers have been setting us up all along. And WE’VE been paying for it.
So much for being discreet on the phone, eh?
Jersey | May 11, 2006 | Reply
The past six or so years have taken a great deal of self-control to restrain from saying “I told you so” every time a new White House scandal breaks out. I can’t wait to hear how this gets defended. Someone will no doubt break out the ol’ “If you haven’t done anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about” line, at which point I’ll ask them if they feel the same way about more extensive gun control.
floor-9 | May 11, 2006 | Reply
i guess this is no surprise then lol
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/12/bush.clinton.poll/index.html
burgi | May 13, 2006 | Reply
wire tapping everyone is a simple solution. the information to stop september 11th was available to the government, but they were too overburdened by useless information and the inability to sort through it with the manpower available. the obvious way to make things better: more useless information.
cosby | May 13, 2006 | Reply
less of a surprise that karl rove is now indicted on perjury
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_jason_le_060513_karl_rove_indicted_o.htm
burgi | May 13, 2006 | Reply
I hold all comments for moderation for a reason. Since Friday I’ve had to delete just shy of a dozen comments on this thread that went into the moderation queue. This is exactly why I don’t do non-local politics on here. Feel free to comment if you can produce an intelligent post. Anything else will be discarded long before it gets published.
floor-9 | May 15, 2006 | Reply
the nsa had a program already in use that encrypted peoples phone numbers. that way they could see patterns without getting peopls numbers. and they could get numbers by court order if there was a threat. then the white house told them to just use the numbers unencrypted.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/bal-nsa517,0,5970724.story?page=1&coll=bal-home-headlines
burgi | May 18, 2006 | Reply