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AT&T Accidentally Leaks NSA Suit Information
op12 writes "CNET has an article describing how AT&T accidentally leaked sensitive information involving the NSA lawsuit. From the article: 'AT&T's attorneys this week filed a 25-page legal brief striped with thick black lines that were intended to obscure portions of three pages and render them unreadable. But the obscured text nevertheless can be copied and pasted inside some PDF readers, including Preview under Apple's OS X and the xpdf utility used with X11. The deleted portions of the legal brief seek to offer benign reasons why AT&T would allegedly have a secret room at its downtown San Francisco switching center that would be designed to monitor Internet and telephone traffic. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, which filed the class action lawsuit in January, alleges that room is used by an unlawful National Security Agency surveillance program.""
Besides, who cares which inconsequential individuals want the president impeached? Lets reverse this and search for those dissidents who are leaking information to the public shall we? How about the person who reported the Plame leak? How about the person who reported the CIA torture in Abu Ghraib? It seems this system would favor the current administration in weeding out dissidents and disaffected government employees more than it would help them find terrorists. Outside of this argument lets look at what the government said before shall we? " Once the exclusive domain of the National Security Agency, the super-secret U.S. agency responsible for developing and cracking electronic codes, encryption has become the everyday tool of Muslim extremists in Afghanistan, Albania, Britain, Kashmir, Kosovo, the Philippines, Syria, the USA, the West Bank and Gaza and Yemen, U.S. officials say. It's become so fundamental to the operations of these groups that bin Laden and other Muslim extremists are teaching it at their camps in Afghanistan and Sudan, they add." source .. So what you have is FUD being pushed at this point. First they're stating the terrorists are using and I quote "UNBREAKABLE CRYPTO". Well golly gee Wilbur, if they're using unbreakable crypto then why bother tapping them. Give me a break. This administration is doing everything it can to erode basic rights such as privacy under the crapaganda term of "Homeland Security". How about securing my communications from eavesdropping, wouldn't that TRULY be homeland security.
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I'm sorry you feel so bad about it, but most US citizens are simply secure in the knowledge that Dubya cannot run again.
The NSA should be disbanded/absorbed into the CIA for going along with this crap.
They're smart folks, and should know better.
Dumbass---er..Dubya (and all his Gestapo) belong in prison IMHO, not that I ever see that happening, but what goes `round comes `round as is said.
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I used to be a Republican, but as the definition of "Republican" has drifted, I realize I'm now effectively somewhere between a Libertarian and an Anarchist.
Yup. Consider the way the media handled the Colbert performance, for instance.
Oh, no! You have walked into the slavering fangs of a lurking grue!
That said, the NSA has never been that legal, from a constitutional view, but noone is willing to challenge their existance...
...and other tricks used by those who wish America to live in Fear.
You're confused about both the NSA and the Constitution. The NSA's primary purpose is signals intelligence of foreign governments and their agents (some of whom may be US citizens). Foreign governments aren't entitled to the rights of a US citizen. Spying on foreign spies is fine too, even if they are US citizens.
But now we just let them spy on us, arrest us without warrants, ship American citizens off to foreign prisons to be tortured for years without any formal charges, and turn the Constitution into confetti for their personal profit.
No, we let them spy on the likes of Al Qaeda members and their supporters.
The Constitution is quite whole, you just apparently don't really understand it. Or maybe you simply don't approve of the powers of the various branches of government, especially the Executive branch in time of war.
I think it is quite revealing that you seem to believe that it is the government that wants to repress Americans and cause them to live in fear, and not the ones actually plotting to kill 4,000,000 Americans, namely Al Qaeda. Fear the sheriff, not the rattlesnake, eh?
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell