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May 15, 2006
There is No Sports Metaphor that Fits This Disaster
I want to give these guys the benefit of the doubt once in a while. I want to believe in the Government, the President, Congress, and everyone else for that matter, but I am reaching the point of no return. The wiretaps, the lies, the incompetence continue to become bigger and bigger parts of our world. It is very disturbing. Last week John Negroponte insisted that the NSA was not tapping domestic calls. (WaPo)
When he was asked about the National Security Agency's controversial domestic surveillance program last Monday, U.S. intelligence chief John D. Negroponte objected to the question and said the government was "absolutely not" monitoring domestic calls without warrants.
"I wouldn't call it domestic spying," he told reporters. "This is about international terrorism and telephone calls between people thought to be working for international terrorism and people here in the United States."
Three days later USA Today reported that the NSA was tracking domestic phone calls.
Three days later, USA Today divulged details of the NSA's effort to log a majority of the telephone calls made within the United States since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks -- amassing the domestic call records of tens of millions of U.S. households and businesses in an attempt to sift them for clues about terrorist threats.
To many lawmakers and civil liberties advocates, the revelation seemed to fly in the face of months of public statements and assurances from President Bush and his aides, who repeatedly sought to characterize the NSA's effort as a narrowly tailored "terrorist surveillance program" that had little impact on regular Americans.
So much for believing anything he says.
Now ABC News reports that the government is tracking reporter's calls to find government leakers. (ABC)
A senior federal law enforcement official tells ABC News the government is tracking the phone numbers we (Brian Ross and Richard Esposito) call in an effort to root out confidential sources.....
Other sources have told us that phone calls and contacts by reporters for ABC News, along with the New York Times and the Washington Post, are being examined as part of a widespread CIA leak investigation.
Tracking phone numbers might not be illegal, I don't know, but it surely is part of an increasingly disturbing pattern of secrey and paranoia permeating the White House..
Posted by Chip Spear at May 15, 2006 1:45 PM
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