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NSA Wiretapping Whistleblower
Kagu writes "ABC News is running a short piece about an interview with former NSA Employee Russell Tice and his allegations that the NSA wiretaps are more pervasive than believed and used in ways he believes violated the law. "
Funny how people who reveal information that the left hopes will hurt the Bush administration are called "whistleblowers," while people who supposedly "out" CIA agents, who weren't undercover in the first place, are "leakers." This ABC piece is just another example of liberal bias in the "mainstream" media.
Thankfully, most Americans understand that if they have no affiliation with terrorist groups, they have nothing to worry about. So fellow slashdotters, you can take off the aluminium foil hats.
Seems to me that Bush is wrong no matter what he does. He's in office for less than a year when 9/11 happens, and he's to blame for it, even though the previous administration did nothing about bin laden for 8 years. Bush fights terrorism by all means available to him, and he's taking away our civil liberties, even though previous administrations did the same thing.
I agree with the above. I think that the NSA should be able to collect all of the information they want. It isn't hurting me if the have transcripts of every phone call I make as long as they are using it for national security.
The comment isn't flamebait just because you don't agree with it or it has a conservative point-of-view.
Revealing classified information to the media is illegal. Stop. End of discussion.
There is a well established (as in legally defined) process for intelligence people to bring any problems that they might have to various review boards in the millitary, the DoJ, the NSA, and Congress as well. The "Domestic Wiretapping" program was actually already undergoing these reviews over the course of years.
Thanks to this "principled whistleblower" and his friends we have now lost a source of actionable intelligence. This on top of apparently arrests of people in Italy who were planning to launch attacks aimed at much greater casualty figures than 9/11. (You can go and ask the NYT why they didn't bother reporting this to you.)
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Minor point: there are no "neo-cons". It was a politial slogan that has never rung true. Conservative motivations are almost completely unchanged since at least th 70's when I learned I was one.
While we're at it, they're (as a rule) not bigots, homophobes, racists or babykillers. All those are on the other side of the aisle and currently serving terms in congress. Why could they abide a member of the KKK on their team? What's so important to them about abortions? It's not a matter of caring for women; NOW sat on their hands as Clinton abused women. It's just creepy.
Sure, this administration has been 1)Spending like drunken sailors, 2)Grown the size of the government needlesly and 3)Done no more on illegal aliens than the last 4-5, but he's a lot closer than Kerry or anyone on the other side. Bein Conservative, you're allowed to point this out to the party- it's our way.
This is what the liberals couldn't understand about the Harriet Myers appointment, so they mis-reported it.
Sorry- just wanted to set ya straight.
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The news media that lies nearly every time I watch it. It's easy to ignore the lies when they are what you want to hear. Ironically, after Bush leaves office and all of the kicking and screaming are done, the historical perspective will likely see him as just another President, unpopular from day one with an overactive press eager to demonize him for things every other President has done.
The news media claims Bush knew there were no WMDs in Iraq. Barring an admission from him, this can not be seen as credible. No-bid contracts have always gone to companies that those in power liked for whatever reason -- procurement issues like this happen in even the smallest towns in America, a fact glanced over by the news media. I suppose you expected Bush to run into flooded New Orleans and rescue people himself. What was it he should have personally done? The news media certainly doesn't seem to think that the municipal or state governments had any duty there. In fact, FEMA is blamed for being too late, even when they are not permitted to enter the area until the Governor (or other body with appropriate power) declares a state of emergency.
Ironically, if Clinton had done a better job, 9/11 would probably not have happened (though the Republicans in Congress can be blamed somewhat for distracting him with investigations)and Bush's approval ratings would never have gone much beyond the dismal numbers they were when he took office.
We can't have people whistleblowing whenever the government violates the constitution. That's treason!!!
...because the rest of the world is just foreign pigs, right? I mean, most of them don't even talk English! Can't be anything wrong with spying on those pesky guys; they're probably all terrorists, anyway.
Seriously, you should really reconsider your personal ethics - as soon as you start looking down on people just because they're foreigners/black/Jews/not Germans/whatever, you have a big problem.
quidquid latine dictum sit altum videtur.
"The remark was clearly intended to describe how we have become, like the soviets were, a police state."
Yes, and my remark was to draw attention to how ridiculous the comparison is. The very fact that he can make such a comparison is proof.
You see, people like you see flippant remarks about things like this as just some guy overstating his position for karma. Maybe.
But my point, and you can't deny this, is that many people actually believe such garbage. You appear to be one of those people.
"The only difference I ever saw between US Capitalism and Sovietism was in the US, the rich were powerful, and under the Soviets the powerful became rich."
Then you're an imbecile, and not worth talking to. Seriously.
My political agenda is to steer the discussion away from people like you, irrational reactionaries who see no difference between the Soviet Union and the US. You know, fringe kooks who ignore truth because lies get more karma.
And that list of "wars" was priceless. I haven't laughed at such an overt display of embellishment and distortion in a long time.
How pathetic are you that you follow me from topic to topic and waste all your mod points at once modding me down?