Motive for the NSA data mining....

[splat@14]

This should make all patriots safer, provide one source to look up all the bad people. Wonder if anyone in this book is on the feds "no-call" list?




http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/

[Pavulon]

1. Since the 30's, this is their job, has been for 3 generations(nt)

[Minnesota Libra]

2. That says it all!!!! nt

[alfredo]

3. Now they have a list of all the people Cindy Sheehan has called, and

everyone they have called.

[Algorem]

4. make sure that you call a lot of Republicans so that when they come for

you they'll round them up too

Toledo Blade poll-

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/frontpage

How concerned are you with the Bush administration's efforts at domestic intelligence gathering?

Very- 56.8% (was 67.9% about an hour ago)

Somewhat- 6.8%

Not Very- 36.3%

Number of votes cast- 278

[JohnnyRingo]

5. I think it's astounding that they want us to believe Al Qaida has a listed

phone number....and they're monitoring it.
If they know the "terrorists" phone numbers, why not freakin' arrest them instead of logging the calls?

Of course that's not why Buxh is tapping our phones, but I bet there's some guy in Iowa named Allan Kydda who has a helluva time hearing his calls through the static and clicks.

[JDPriestly]

6. Bush can snoop on our calls but not on Saudi financial

information. In the aftermath of 9/11, Saudi Arabia refused to provide information tracing Al Qaeda financial transactions within its borders to the United States, Ron Suskind writes in The Price of Loyalty on p. 197.

Suskind writes that O'Neill stated that "Without active investigations inside the kingdom, without the full cooperation of the Saudis as true co-investigators, much of what remained was just sniffing the transactional trail of the dead 9/11 hijackers, a trail that was going cold." Suskind, p. 1999.

There were no repercussions for the Saudis. The most chilling passage in Suskind's book is his description of a party thrown by Prince Bandar to raise funds to support AIDS projects in Africa a couple of months after 9/11. Suskind pp. 199-201. It was underwritten by international corporations including Ford, General Dynamics, Pfizer and many others and attended by the power brokers of America including Laura Bush attended. Suskind describes how Prince Bandar stood up and extolled the "friendship" between Saudi Arabia and the United States and how Saudi Arabia was "doing everything possible to help America in these trying times."

Then the entertainment began: Roberta Flack singing "Killing Me Softly." Suskind, 201.

Bush keeps a record of the phone numbers I call, but he did not have the guts to face down the Saudis over the financial records of the terrorists in Saudi Arabia. Who is running this show? If Bush didn't need the Saudi ARabian financial records -- the records of the real terrorists, then why in the world does he need mine? I am extremely law abiding. I would never hurt anyone. I've never done a violent thing in my life. What in the world do my phone records have to do with terrorism? Bush just can't focus. That is his problem. And the whole country is suffering because of it.