What good is the NSA phone base if not all phone co's participate?

Inland

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Fri May-12-06 10:39 AM
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What good is the NSA phone base if not all phone co's participate?

I guess it's a question that presumes that anyone knows what is REALLY going on in the bowels of this administration.

But seems to me that it would be effective if it includes all companies, otherwise, the data can't be mined because the patterns are dependent on reporting.

Why wouldn't NSA seek a law change and make it universal?

In the end, is this just the government doing whatever just because it can get away with it, doing the max that it can do secretly?

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realisticphish

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Fri May-12-06 10:41 AM
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1. pretty much

they know that even their minions wouldn't go for total government surveillance, so they do all they can with the NSA

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Atman

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Fri May-12-06 10:41 AM
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2. Terrorists only use Verizon and Bellsouth. Everyone knows that!

Boy, give a guy a brain and he think that gives him a right to start THINKIN!

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RobertSeattle

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Fri May-12-06 10:42 AM
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3. Phone Records on 2/3 of Democrats is better than none at all!

:evilgrin:

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GreenPartyVoter

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Fri May-12-06 10:44 AM
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4. Because they are gathering info from a lot of other places too

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1167587

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etherealtruth

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Fri May-12-06 10:44 AM
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5. My guess is that in the wide swath captured ...

...calls made from phones that are using AT&T's system to Quest would be obtained so that in the end most calls have been successfully mined.

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HereSince1628

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Fri May-12-06 10:47 AM
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6. That'd be my guess, too.

And don't the telephone companies use the same national infrastructure?

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