It's always possible that I've misunderstood what I heard, but I thought there was extensive domestic spying. Sorry if I got it wrong.
--Ben Sam wrote: > 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:5:194612 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
