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Poll Finds Mixed Support for Domestic Wiretaps
aspenbordr writes "The NYTimes reports that Americans are growing more and more concerned about the tradeoff between 'fighting terrorism' and civil liberties. Forty-seven percent of those polled responded they they did not support 'wiretapping in order to reduce the threat of terrorism'." From the article: "Mr. Bush, at a White House press conference yesterday, twice used the phrase 'terrorist surveillance program' to describe an operation in which the administration has eavesdropped on telephone calls and other communications like e-mail that it says could involve operatives of Al Qaeda overseas talking to Americans. Critics say the administration could conduct such surveillance while still getting prior court approval, as spelled out in a 1978 law intended to guard against governmental abuses."
Just enlist a few members of Al Queda to start dialing wrong numbers. Then the NSA will be too busy tracking down who's who for the program to continue. :-)
One of the wiretaps was on the husband of Kerry's campaign manager...
I would assume to indirectly monitor his wife's work on the Kerry Campaign. That is up for opinion though...
So tell me again how this is keeping us safe from terrorism?
Wake up Jack ass, if you don't think there is a problem with terrorist blowing up people all over the world, start reading something other than slashdot. Get your head out the sand and your own ass. Impeach the president for protecting america from attacks, huh???? The american people elected him and would again if the elections were held today. No one except a few liberals\dems think the president broke the law, and if it is breaking the law, then the laws will be changed; as sugested by the dems themselves. Monitoring terrorist phone calls to people in the US during a war is just common sense you idiot. Go join the Talaban.