is that when it comes to "international links" used as excuses for initiating wiretaps or national security letters, that e-mail is a cynch to fabricate. Fabricate a return address for the person in question, send something out, voila, when the adressee answers it you have a bonafide international link with which to initiate more surveillance.
Which is another way of saying that, since political police, i.e. FBI and other agencies, have in the past concocted evidence, that with nothing, not even rubber stamp FISA courts to restrain them, it's god damned easy for these agencies to manufacture evidence in order to initiate politically motivated surveillance on innocent civilians.
Sunday, December 18, 2005
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Ur very right on that opinion.
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What I don't get about this whole wiretapping business is why it needed to be such a secret. What is the purpose, from a national security point of view, of keeping it a secret. People with expensive cars put the little blinking red light on their dash to let would be car thieves know that there is an active security system. If deterring terrorists was the point, as is claimed, why not tell the world that they are intercepting international communications. Maybe then the terrorists wouldn't attempt the attacks in the first place.
It seems clear to me that the White House expected that there would be a backlash against such a blatant infringement of privacy which is the real reason it was kept secret. However, where is the backlash? I would bet that the White House is actually breathing a little easier seeing that the story it turning out to be just that, only a news story. Where is the outrage? To me, allowing domestic wiretaps to go unregulated, even by a rubber stamp court, a blatant contravention of their own laws, should be enough to bring people out into the streets demanding impeachment.
It is all too clear that this administration has no respect for individual liberty or democracy and this issue illustrates, not to mention the secret prisons in Poland and Romania.
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