Comments on: What “warrantless wiretapping” hath wrought

By: Alphonse

Alphonse — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:00:07 +0000

Your wiretapper…Israel.

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=24988781

By: Alphonse

Alphonse — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 05:33:55 +0000

It’s a given that a surveillance society is safer than a free one. No argument.

By: lonewolf

lonewolf — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 05:03:36 +0000

I publish an Iranian expatriate woman political refugee, virulent anti-mullah dissident, with many direct contacts inside Iran.. She has exposed at least three Iranian government “moles” who were invited by State Department, thereby embarassing and earning the enimity of some powerful Washington players. Her phone and faxes are monitored and interfered with. She says she has nothing to hide and if it will help catch baddies has no objection.

By: khan

khan — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 23:51:03 +0000

What it hath wrought is a trampling of freedom, liberty, and the Constitution.

By: tanksoldier

tanksoldier — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:15:27 +0000

The FISA law then in effect allowed the government to get a warrant after the wiretap started in cases like these. There is no excuse for the Bushies to violate the law.

1. Why would a US warrant even cover a phone conversation, half of which is in Columbia?

2. Should Columbian authorities obtain a warrant in US court to tap a conversation, half of which is in Columbia?

By: GaMidnightRider

GaMidnightRider — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 01:18:12 +0000

If you are not doing something wrong then you should not worry who listens. Makes me wonder what Democrats and liberals are so worried about…..hhmmmm

By: docflash

docflash — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 21:36:39 +0000

When I was a kid most telephone lines were party lines.If you wanted to you could listen to anyone that was on the phone on your line.I don’t rmember any lawsuits or people fretting about it.

By: oldcollegeguy1980

oldcollegeguy1980 — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:39:50 +0000

My insanely liberal brother called to let me know he had a heart condition.

I suggested that he simply surrender.

Why fight an enemy he cannot obviously defeat. No need to get bogged down with the effort. After all it really wasn’t worth it.

Besides if he did fight and win he would just have to return to his masters and serve their needs for his living.

In the end though, I told to take an anti-acid as he probably just had heart burn from worrying that the Bush administrations spying efforts were penetrating his tin-foil hat.

He certainly has given me enough of that over the years.

By: JHSII

JHSII — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:24:27 +0000

The “Bushies” didn’t violate the law.

I bet during WWII lgm and the other liberals would have required the USN to get warrants for each and every Japanese transmitter just prior to the Battle of Midway. And then because we couldn’t – and didn’t need to legally – we would have been caught totally off-guard by the attack. Midway would have been celebrated as a major Japanese victory.

By: rightisright

rightisright — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:19:16 +0000

nlebou, google her…there’s quite a bit there on her.

By: lgm

lgm — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:18:50 +0000

From the article:

After the 9/11 attacks, the US government started to monitor e-mails and phone calls in which one participant was abroad. It did so without going to a special court to ask for a warrant, arguing that there was no time.

The FISA law then in effect allowed the government to get a warrant after the wiretap started in cases like these. There is no excuse for the Bushies to violate the law.

By: Ret7army

Ret7army — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:41:03 +0000

Guitarguy etal
on # of people required to monitor phone lines…not so many as you’d think, computers have come a long way baby (to steal a phrase) Russian/East German monitoring of phone calls between then West Berlin and the rest of the world was done mostly by computers, using voice recognition tech and looking for key phrases.
Yes, they’ve got people listening too, but the ‘puters helped to screen all the calls.
As to America and the Bush legislation – international “wiretapping” has been going on for decades, slam Bush slam Clinton, Reagan, Carter, LBJ, Kennedy etc.
Regards

By: Ret7army

Ret7army — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:34:20 +0000

Michelle,

P.S. I so admire Gonsalves for taking the time to do a press conference and tell the truth about the FARC. He’s got an amazing story and I look forward to seeing and hearing more from him.

So, lets have the Pajamas Media do an interview with him.

By: rambler

rambler — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:08:35 +0000

For the libs it is see no evil, hear no evil and when speaking, do not expose any evil. In other words, put you head in the sand and hope that your butt is still there.

By: ArizonaNeanderthal

ArizonaNeanderthal — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 12:53:23 +0000

Haven’t you heard? Liberals think all conservatives and republicans are lackeys of the government. Therefore all these “people just sitting around listening to ALL of the phone calls coming in and out of the USA” are conservatives and republicans just doing the bidding of the government in their spare time. //sarc off

But what about next year? IF FISA is about foreign calls no honest person should have a problem. But soon we will have one of two men President of the United States who have shown themselves to NOT be concerned with civil liberties and American Rights. It will be we, the Conservatives, whose phones are tapped, bloggs monitored. Senators McCain and Obama would have no problem with the Fairness Doctrine, database building and such.

Excuse my paranoia but it In God I Trust, others need not apply.