Read this online today...
NEW YORK - The National Security Agency has eavesdropped, without warrants, on as many 500 people inside the United States at any given time since 2002, it was reported Friday.
That year, following the Sept. 11 attacks, President Bush authorized the NSA to monitor the international phone calls and international e-mails of hundreds — perhaps thousands — of people inside the United States, the New York Times reported.
Before the program began, the NSA typically limited its domestic surveillance to foreign embassies and missions and obtained court orders for such investigations. Overseas, 5,000 to 7,000 people suspected of terrorist ties are monitored at one time.
The Times report came two days after NBC News reported on the existence of a secret Defense Department database of information about suspicious people and activity inside the United States, including anti-war groups.
The Times said its reporters interviewed nearly a dozen current and former administration officials to compile information about the eavesdropping the program and granted them anonymity because of the classified nature of the program.
Is anyone else concerned about this? Spying on civilians without court orders, is what Nixon did? Did we learn nothing in the last 30 years? Or do people just not care?
Well, people NEED to care! If he's spying on anti-war activities, is it not possible that they'd also be monitoring anti-war statements? Printed material? How about stuff on the Internet? how about Polt's Palace, for all the anti-Bush, anti-war, anti-Republican stuff I've put on here?
Some might say, so what if they are monitoring Polt's Palace? Friends, if they're monitoring the Palace, and your'e reading this, don't for a second think they won't be monitoring the people who stop by here.
Do I think the government IS montioring the Palace? No. But is it beyond the realm of possiblity that they could or would? No. This type of subversive crap is an affront to the Constitution!
But of course, the American public are much MORE concerned about who's going to win the next American Idol, who Tom Cruise is sleeping with today, where they can get the new video game system, and how the end of civilization is just around the corner because we're not saying Merry Christmas to each other.
Ya know, somebody once said, peopel get the government they deserve, and that's no truer than right now. How sad.
POLT = listening to "Woo-Hoo" by the 5,6,7,8's
I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to BE art! - Carrie Fisher
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