GEN. HAYDEN: This is targeted and focused. This is not about intercepting conversations between people in the United States. This is hot pursuit of communications entering or leaving America involving someone we believe is associated with al Qaeda. We bring to bear all the technology we can to ensure that this is so. And if there were ever an anomaly, and we discovered that there had been an inadvertent intercept of a domestic-to-domestic call, that intercept would be destroyed and not reported. But the incident, what we call inadvertent collection, would be recorded and reported. But that's a normal NSA procedure. It's been our procedure for the last quarter century. And as always, as we always do when dealing with U.S. person information, as I said earlier, U.S. identities are expunged when they're not essential to understanding the intelligence value of any report. Again, that's a normal NSA procedure.
On 1/26/06, Ben Doom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No. The ruckus is about recording domestic -- US phone to US phone -- > calls without warrants. Even for international calls, the tap was made > by identifying the domestic line, which requires a warrant. They were > spying in people in the US specifically, rather than in the course of > tapping foreign phones. > > --Ben > > Sam wrote: > > On 1/26/06, Ben Doom wrote: > > > >> What they were not allowed to do, and they have been doing, is tapping > >> calls made in the US without a warrant. > > > > Well I don't think they're tapping individual phones in the US. They > > are tapping the al Qaeda phones even if the call originated in the US. > > So if you call a suspected criminal that's being tapped overseas you > > get recorded. > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:194599 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
