They are just using phone records to...

...fight terrorism...honest.
Swear to God.
I'll bet you a hundred bucks.

The NSA doesn't need no stinking oversight.
Don't be silly.





:silly:

and have not turned up a SINGLE terrorist. Not ONE.

This thing is not what they claim it to be.

that you're correct. ;-)

...The "Homeland" knows what's best for us.
:smoke:

then tell them the proceeds will just be used to pump up the economy.....See-ignore the process and trumpet the benefits....

they call a "government hand-out." Your argument is good because it turns that back on them. They are being "stolen from" by taxes to support these programs. The equivalent response: They're only helping the poor and pumping up the economy so we can all make money and continue to be able to afford the taxes high enough to pay for all the military hardware.

then they said ok we are but it's only foreign calls,
then they said ok we are monitoring domestic calls but we are not listening
I can almost guarantee the next bombshell will be that that they ARE listening to people's phone calls!

http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-a1_nsasidemay12,0,6505391.story

May 12, 2006

Can feds make numbers add up?
By Jon Van
Special to The Morning Call

Connecting the dots is difficult, but for homeland security agents, the real trick is figuring out where the dots are and which ones need connecting.

That analogy may be at the core of the federal government's interest in keeping tabs on all the telephone calls Americans make to each other every day. Government agents reportedly hope that computers can sift through the mountains of phone data to extract nuggets of information revealing terrorist plotters.

Only within the past decade has a subset of computer science called link mining even become available to attempt such a daunting task, though some researchers believe that even the most powerful computers will never deliver the answers that the government seeks.

Congressional leaders were demanding answers from the Bush administration Thursday about a specific type of connecting-the-dots activity: whether the National Security Agency had collected extensive phone call records from America's three largest telecommunications carriers, and whether the privacy rights of individuals had been violated.

Behind those questions is the arcane science of using super-powerful computers to mine data of all types for information.

''It's a massive data problem, but you can do it,'' said Kris Hammond, Northwestern University professor of electrical engineering and computer science. ''If it were impossible to get specific answers to specific questions from a huge database, Google couldn't exist.''

More at link...


Jon Van is a reporter for the

Chicago Tribune, a Tribune Publishing newspaper.


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