WORD! On 1/26/06, Robert Munn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > F-ing bureaucrats, the lot of you. > > The wiretaps are targeting phone calls where one of the parties is a > suspected (or proven) terrorist overseas who is talking to someone in the > U.S., presumably not to plan the next family get-together. > > The President does not need a warrant to send spy planes to listen in on > terrorist conversations in Afghanistan. Why would he then need a warrant just > because that same terrorist made a call to New York? This is a global war, > not a global police action. The NSA is a big part of the war effort, and > electronic intelligence is a big part of what they do. > > Too many people are caught up in the semantics of the situation. This is not > a traditional war between states. This is an asymmetrical war against > non-state actors. Our rules of warfare need to adapt to the reality of that > situation if we intend to win this war. > > I don't like the invasion of privacy any more than the next guy, but it is a > necessary tool of the government in the war effort.
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