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NSA Spying Comes Under Attack

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the get-out-of-my-head dept.

maotx writes "The NSA's no-longer-secret surveillance program came under a two-pronged attack this week on both political and legal fronts. Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania threatens to cut funding to NSA's spying program if President Bush's administration does not come clean on how it works. Separately, two hearing dates have been set for a lawsuit that seeks to prove that AT&T illegally cooperated with the NSA and violated federal wiretapping laws in doing so. Sen. Specter emphasized that he doesn't want the issue to fade into the background, saying that he'd like to see 'public concern and public indignation build up.'"

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  1. Re:It's probably legal. There are bigger issues! by Alaska+Jack · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Any US President can say you are a terrorist, kidnap your whole family in the middle of the night, and have your kids raped to death in front of your wife to make her tell where you are hiding. And Gonzalez will say it's all legal, if anyone ever finds out about it.



    Hey, maybe the moderation system is working! This FUD ^h^h^h legal theory certainly is "interesting". And no one (yet) has moderated it "insightful".



        - AJ
  2. Re:I got all excited by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    let's hope the democrats win a majority in the fall. the republican party is out of control.

    And the Democrats have such a wonderful platform that thay are running on: 1. Raise taxes, 2. Killing babies is fun, 3. raise taxes, 4. I hate George Bush, 5. raise taxes, 6. Stop picking on those wonderful al'queda freedom fighters, 7. raise taxes, 8. 9-11 is all your (Americans) fault, 9. raise taxes, 10. I am a war hero, 11. raise taxes, 12. America is evil. 13. raise taxes.