Obama's Black Widow

Barack Obama will be in charge of the biggest domestic and international spying operation in history. Its prime engine is the National Security Agency (NSA)-located and guarded at Fort Meade, Maryland, about 10 miles northeast of Washington, D.C. A brief glimpse of its ever-expanding capacity was provided on October 26 by The Baltimore Sun's national security correspondent, David Wood: "The NSA's colossal Cray supercomputer, code-named the 'Black Widow,' scans millions of domestic and international phone calls and e-mails every hour.... The Black Widow, performing hundreds of trillions of calculations per second, searches through and reassembles key words and patterns, across many languages."

In July, George W. Bush signed into law the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, which gives the NSA even more power to look for patterns that suggest terrorism links in Americans' telephone and Internet communications.

The ACLU immediately filed a lawsuit on free speech and privacy grounds. The new Bush law provides farcical judicial supervision over the NSA and other government trackers and databasers. Although Senator Barack Obama voted for this law, dig this from the ACLU: "The government to conduct intrusive surveillance without ever telling a court who it intends to spy on, what phone lines and e-mail addresses it intends to monitor, where its surveillance targets are located, why it's conducting the surveillance or whether it suspects any party to the communication of wrongdoing."

This gives the word "dragnet" an especially chilling new meaning.

The ACLU's Jameel Jaffer, director of its National Security Project, adds that the new statute, warming the cold hearts of the NSA, "implicates all kinds of communications that have nothing to do with terrorism or criminal activity of any kind."

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compiling all our data under their control, they could stop lying to us and explain what they are doing. Their purpose is political under the Bush administration. Starting with obedience and submission - controlling and preventing protests - a huge fear for them. It is stealing privacy to have an advantage for whatever gains they want - their main interests being control and profit and eliminating time delays. Once a poor soul is picked up and dropped off in a prison without record, the person's record can be destroyed. Don't laugh - immigrants are 'disappearing' off our streets and we 'disappeared' people off the streets all over the world - from Canada to Pakistan and East Asia for their 'war' effort.

Anyone who believes they are trying to catch terrorists cannot proceed to second grade elementary school.

Anyone who believes they are trying to catch terrorists cannot proceed to second grade elementary school.