Thursday, May 11, 2006

Posted by Sickboy at 11:18 AM
USA Today: NSA building massive database of phone records

Thursday, May 11, 2006; Posted: 12:09 p.m. EDT (16:09 GMT)

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush said Thursday that the government does not troll the personal lives of Americans, but did not directly refer to newspaper reports the National Security Agency has gathered millions of Americans' phone records.

Congressional Democrats had demanded answers from the Bush administration about a report that the government secretly collected records of ordinary Americans' phone calls to build a database of every call made within the country.

"It is our government, it's not one party's government. It's America's government. Those entrusted with great power have a duty to answer to Americans what they are doing," said Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth telephone companies began turning over records of tens of millions of their customers' phone calls to the NSA program shortly after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, USA Today reported, citing anonymous sources it said had direct knowledge of the arrangement.


This one should get some good talk going....is the Govt. going too far with this phone call plan or is this just a way to protect us from terrorist activity? You make the call, haha....

6 comments:

Sickboy said...

I dont know how I feel about this one here. The conservative in me says that if you have nothing to hide, there is no big deal in it. The other side of me says that this may be going too far in trolling for people without good reason.

I just dont know. Im torn.

11:25 AM CDT
Scott said...

I question how useful that info would actually be. Billions of phone calls that is a lot of info to sort through. And what terrorist is stupid enough to use their phone to make plans in this day….that is so year 2000. I guess we are paying our gov to be do something, but it sure does not seem their being thoughtful or innovative.

11:55 AM CDT
Sickboy said...

Scott, your reply is well thought out and rational, a quality I admire in you.

3:41 PM CDT
dad-e~O said...

I would like to add...
Let them save my calls..
Lets see: Work (I'll be home soon), School (what do you mean they're sick), Parents (send money:}), siblings(blah, blah), sounds pretty boring.
my question is, how many of my tax $$ are spent on grabbing, diagnosing, and storing my call records, not to mention the jillions of other inocent calls accross the country.?
It seems we could figure out a way to better accomplish this task.
Assasins do not generally use a shotgun.

5:19 PM CDT
Sickboy said...

"Assasins do not generally use a shotgun"

thats a GREAT line. It sums this whole thing up pretty damn well.

5:35 PM CDT
dad-e~O said...

I beleive I've said it before but...
My father used to say, even a blind pig wil find a walnut once in a while.
Which should not apply to law inforcement, but does apply to my occasional wittisisms

10:15 PM CDT

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