Phone Companies Will Not Be Liable
From the title of my post YAWN, I hoped the reader was able to grasp the fact that the USA Today story was not anything new, but at least something for the left to drool over. It was already brought to our attention in December of 2005 by James Risen. One cite is claiming that the telecos will be held liable for millions in fines. That is not true, as there is no violation of the law. But what is a day of news if not for re-hashed material?
I must admit, my favorite reaction came from Jack Cafferty, of CNN, when he said “We better all hope nothing happens to Arlen Specter, the Republican head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, cause he might be all that’s standing between us and a full-blown dictatorship in this country.”
Others blogging this: Captains Quarters, RightWinged.com, Think Progress
May 12, 2006 - 07:22 AM on May 12th, 2006
The link you cite does not say there is no violation. In fact, it says that it’s likely there is one or more statutory violations.
May 12, 2006 - 10:23 AM on May 12th, 2006
Latest NSA scandal leaves Americans unfazed (PM UPDATE II)
Encouraging news coming out of the Boston Globe:
Mark Jellison, a Verizon customer in Quincy, isn’t fazed that his phone company may have turned over his calling records and those of millions of others to the National Security Agency as part of a…
May 12, 2006 - 03:59 PM on May 12th, 2006
This is going to get BIG…
May 12, 2006 - 04:58 PM on May 12th, 2006
hate to tell you guys this but its normal to do this kind of thing.
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May 12, 2006 - 08:28 PM on May 12th, 2006
This is nothing. Ever heard of Echelon? That was far more intrusive, and it went on during the Klinton Admin. Not a peep from the lefties then.
May 12, 2006 - 08:49 PM on May 12th, 2006
Well considering the law that made this possible was passed by a Democratic Congress and signed by a Democratic President, why are the DEMS sqawking about it? Some of the people sqawking about it, voted for the legislation to make it happen in the first place 12 years ago. This is also far less intrusive than the Echelon program under Clinton and Echelon was BEFORE 9/11. With the lawsuit filed against Verizon, I seriously feel like going Shakespeare on the Bar Association. In one of his plays, Shakespeare wrote “The first thing we do is kill all the lawyers.”
I do want to lay this program out and see why there is so much opposition to it.
A computer tracks which numbers call which numbers when. Well telephone records of this sort are available for a fee online so obviously they aren’t private. In fact the Supreme Court has ruled that they are third party records and therefore the property of the PHONE companies who may provide them to outside entities as they see fit.
Another computer program monitors international calls from suspect areas of hostile countries to suspected terrorists in this country. The numbers chosen for monitoring are either found on Al Quaeda terrorists overseas or have a particularly high frequency of calls to said suspect areas.
By monitoring international calls, we determine that Terrorist A (let’s call him Abdul) is taking orders to prepare for an attack. Doesn’t it just make sense to want to know that Abdul has been calling Terrorist M (Let’s call him Mahmoud) frequently and therefore they are probably both terrorists who need to be watched and treated accordingly? Of course if you don’t care if Adbul and Mahmoud, et al carry out another terrorist attack, shutting down the program may sound like a great idea.
May 13, 2006 - 02:10 PM on May 13th, 2006
yes but also understand with bush calling for the death of the USA For one world reasons, see 5-15-2006, the laws will still be around after the fall of freedom and justice for all! ( a little joke) to be used by the mexicans/third world people who are planned to take power in the hispanic house ( once known as the white house ) soon will be used against you for race reasons of aztlan! any who talk out against mexico city and bin laden and the planed death of the USA will some day BE put inside the coming death camps that both parties are asking for AND HAVE BUILD.
So be happy in the last days of freedom, buy more!
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Mexico city has the power now to kill you all with the help of evil laws.:evil: i have my targets do you?:idea:
May 14, 2006 - 11:22 AM on May 14th, 2006
“Jack Cafferty, of CNN, when he said “We better all hope nothing happens to Arlen Specter, the Republican head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, cause he might be all that’s standing between us and a full-blown dictatorship in this country.”
Jack Cafferty: What an asswipe, and just one more reason why CNN (Criminal News Network, Communist News Network, Clinton News network) is spiraling ever further down the toilet. (”CNN: Most trusted name in news!” Bwaaa ha ha ha ha ha!)
I guess there has to be a successor for pinko propagandist Dan Blather, and perhaps Jacko is jockeying for that spot.
Maybe Jacko is interviewing for Air Jizzeera (Airhead America).
May 14, 2006 - 04:25 PM on May 14th, 2006
with all the calls i make each day i should have been shot long ago! after all i am a real American terrorists for freedom in the old ways so read Aaron Russo! i hope i get the nice undergound prison, one person per cell would be great! ok stop joking now! becuase this country is not happy with jokes, see Nazi germany 1939, soon to be Nazi MexAmerico! under the control of bin laden and bush:shock:
do the cells have phones or cell phones?:roll:Little joke from the “to-be-celled-one!:wink: Can i ask some nice FBI guy Just to shot me in the head for peace and freedom hillary way, if you know what i mean:wink: