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More Details Emerge On Domestic Spying Programs

Posted by kdawson on from the government-and-business-a-sittin'-in-a-tree dept.

The feed brings us this NYTimes story giving new details on the telecom carriers' cooperation with secret NSA (and other) domestic spying programs. One revelation is that the Drug Enforcement Agency has been running a program since the 1990s to collect the phone records of calls from US citizens to Latin America in order to catch narcotics traffickers. Another revelation is what exactly the NSA asked for in 2001 that Qwest balked at supplying. According to the article, it was access to the company's most localized communications switches, which primarily carry domestic calls.

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  1. So what? This is old news! by StefanJ · · Score: 0, Troll

    There, I saved some apologist troll from the trouble of posting a disingenuous, dismissive post treating more damning evidence of this administration's march toward a police state.

  2. Re:Criminals aren't concerned by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    just perhaps, the reason people aren't calling for an end to the war on drugs is that most of them don't have this dogmatic belief that drugs are good. Those of us who have buried friends know how dangerous it is. Yes, I've buried friends. Yes, I've watched friends self destruct. Nope, never seen anyone make their life better with meth. Fortunately, I figured out faster then them that staying clean was a better option. I wish the first hit wasn't so easy to get; Mel would be alive now. Fuck you for supporting the fuckers who killed her.

  3. It's time for Bush to respect the constitution by stupidpuppy · · Score: 0, Troll
    Whether it's a Russian Bomber in international airspace, Osama in a cave in Pakistan, or a blog on the internet, Bush needs to read the constitution, which requires the US government to get a warrant before collecting information on any of these things.

    This isn't to mention Bush's greatest threat to the constitution. The Bush administration has been using Satellites (in Space) to spy on other countries -- even our enemies -- without first getting warrants. And I won't even get into the rampant (warrantless) newspaper reading that goes on in the CIA and NSA and up the ladder straight to the white house.

    It's impeachment time. The sheeple of the US need to stand up and do what's right.