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December 16, 2005
All Journeys (To Hell) Start With A Single Step
You think this is no big deal? You think it is not important? If so, don't bother reading my column because you are an idiot. How is that for a strong opinion? I am not sorry to say such things, but this is something that every American should be very worried about. This is just the sort of thing that leads us into extremely dangerous territory. It is "cheating" at its dirtiest. The NY Times reports,
Months after the Sept. 11 attacks, President Bush secretly authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on Americans and others inside the United States to search for evidence of terrorist activity without the court-approved warrants ordinarily required for domestic spying, according to government officials.
Under a presidential order signed in 2002, the intelligence agency has monitored the international telephone calls and international e-mail messages of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people inside the United States without warrants over the past three years in an effort to track possible "dirty numbers" linked to Al Qaeda, the officials said. The agency, they said, still seeks warrants to monitor entirely domestic communications.
That last sentence is supposed to reassure us that the government can be trusted to do the right thing. I think there has been too much deception of late to give them the benefit of the doubt. As the movie says, "Be afraid, be very afraid."
Posted by Chip Spear at December 16, 2005 9:30 AM
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