If we're tapping a cell phone in Pakistan of a known al Qaeda member and the calls goes to or comes from the US we used to hang up, now we keep listening.
See the question is loaded because it's a complicated process presented as the President eavesdropping on random Americans looking for terrorist. On 3/1/06, Jim Davis wrote: > > By adding: > > > > from known terrorist > > from al Qaeda > > where at least one end of the call is overseas > > one or all would do. > > It's my understanding that none of these statements are actually true > however. > > The calls were not only from "known terrorists" - at best only suspected > terrorists and in some cases not even that. Apparently data-mining > applications of questionable resource were implemented to determine who to > tap. > > The calls were not "from Al Qaeda" simply because there's no way to know > that at this end - you have to be tapping the line in advance to know who's > calling. Also Al Qaeda is far from the only terrorist organization that's > being watched. > > I'm not sure that all the calls were overseas although they may be... I > could have sworn that many of the cases were suspected individuals within > the US. In any case the administration hasn't (to my knowledge at least - > and I may be wrong of course) released any sort of documentation on the taps > made or the criteria for making them this statement is suspect at best. > > In other words if the taps happened to be only on overseas calls there > doesn't seem to be any evidence that the administration was limiting itself > to that criteria. You might say that all the calls were made to people with > brown eyes and possibly be correct but that doesn't make it a criteria for > selection. > > Jim Davis > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:198453 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=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
