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May 12, 2006
USA's NSA Spoof-Bait For Dems - Just Another 'Wolf Cry'!
Topics: Political News and commentariesI don't know about you, but the seemingly never ending cycle of media anti-Bush wolf-cries is begining to become annoying; it's always just another on-again off-again made-up crisis all about nothing. For example, the latest "timely" media spoof (gee, this couldn't have anything to do with Michael Hayden's appointment to head the CIA) is USA Today's Dem-bait about the NSA collection of phone call records (of course all of the media went nuts over the opportunity to bash the Bush administration and joined-in with the Dems in telling Americans that the government is listening in on everything they say).
Don't get me wrong, I'm not one of those blind Bushies that always finds a reason to defend the president, even when he's off the reservation of reason. However, when he's right, he's right, and more often then not when it comes to media-driven left wing agenda hype, especially about national security issues, the crisis story of the week is nothing more than spoof-bait, a chance for the Dems to embark on another exercise in tomfoolery. Just another trip to nowheresville that works against the national security interests of the United States of America.
Yet, as far as spoof-bait goes, seldom has a card carrying member of the Left-wing agenda's media meisters reached so low to as to simply recycle old news that was never news in the first place, as did USA Today in this latest NSA telephone record story with "inflamers" like "The NSA program reaches into homes and businesses across the nation by amassing information about the calls of ordinary Americans -- most of whom aren't suspected of any crime":
(...) The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth, people with direct knowledge of the arrangement told USA TODAY.It's not just that USA has reminded our enemies that want to kill us and that the government is working hard to seek out their devilish plans, the USA Today's innuendo that the administration did something illegal is one hundred percent wrong. Furthermore, in this case, if USA Today didn't get the story from a traitor violating national security laws, they likely just recycled an old New York Times story. Take for example the NY Times story of December 24, 2005:(...) The NSA program reaches into homes and businesses across the nation by amassing information about the calls of ordinary Americans -- most of whom aren't suspected of any crime. This program does not involve the NSA listening to or recording conversations. But the spy agency is using the data to analyze calling patterns in an effort to detect terrorist activity, sources said in separate interviews.
{..} "It's the largest database ever assembled in the world," said one person, who, like the others who agreed to talk about the NSA's activities, declined to be identified by name or affiliation. The agency's goal is "to create a database of every call ever made" within the nation's borders, this person added.
(...) For the customers of these companies, it means that the government has detailed records of calls they made -- across town or across the country -- to family members, co-workers, business contacts and others.
(...) The three telecommunications companies are working under contract with the NSA, which launched the program in 2001 shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the sources said. The program is aimed at identifying and tracking suspected terrorists, they said.
(...) The sources would talk only under a guarantee of anonymity because the NSA program is secret.
(...) The National Security Agency has traced and analyzed large volumes of telephone and Internet communications flowing into and out of the United States as part of the eavesdropping program that President Bush approved after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to hunt for evidence of terrorist activity, according to current and former government officials.This NYT article undoubtedly spells out exactly what USA reported yesterday as news. So USA's "news" isn't news, the innuendo, more like the accusation, of wrong doing or illegality on the part of the Bush administration is absolutely one hundred percent wrong. Just another episode of spoof-baiting the Left's darlings - the Democratic party and it's agenda-driven, to hell with what's good for America, leaders. Based upon the USA Today report - collecting telephone records that is done ever day by law enforcement and others, but not actually eavesdropping, not listening in on the calls - an important distinction, no laws have been broken.(...) As part of the program approved by President Bush for domestic surveillance without warrants, the N.S.A. has gained the cooperation of American telecommunications companies to obtain backdoor access to streams of domestic and international communications, the officials said.
(...) Because the program is highly classified, many details of how the N.S.A. is conducting it remain unknown...
(...) A former technology manager at a major telecommunications company said that since the Sept. 11 attacks, the leading companies in the industry have been storing information on calling patterns and giving it to the federal government to aid in tracking possible terrorists.
I think Neil Cavuto put this all in the best perspective for a take home message here:
(...) I don't like the government secretly collecting records of ordinary Americans' phone calls. But I don't like ordinary Americans dying either. Just like I don't like being frisked before I get on a plane. But I guess it's better than risking a bad guy getting on that plane.Like I said when I started this diatribe - I don't know about you, but the seemingly never ending cycle of media anti-Bush wolf-cries is begining to become annoying. Especially on issues of NSA efforts to keep terrorists from destroying American's lives, propert, and way of life. On national security issues, the media and their Left-wing buddies in the Democratic party have it all wrong. It's simply a no-go with the American public who'd much rather be safe than sorry.(...) Such are the times in which we live, where we have to live with inconveniences that can border on the hysteric.
(...) I don't know. I do know that we haven't been attacked on our soil in nearly four and a half years. I suspect because we're watching more, listening more and yes, tapping more.
(...) Trust me, all this fuss over freedoms would fade in a mushroom-cloud moment if there were another attack on our soil. The problem is that the longer we go from the last attack on our soil, the more we seem convinced there won't be another attack on our soil.
(...) I am not for creating a police state. I am for creating a safer state. A place where those who whine and moan can have a day to whine and moan and to read about it in the next day's headlines. Better to read them there than in the next day's obituaries.
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The technique the NSA is reportedly using is known as "data mining" and has long been utilized by commercial businesses. Companies gather data on consumers' buying habits to track product popularity. For example, using a discount card at a store tracks purchasing patterns, which helps companies create and market products - ... the government is simply doing what businesses have been doing for years.
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