Comments on: BellSouth demands retraction of NSA story from USA Today

By: Entelechy

Entelechy — Fri, 19 May 2006 16:43:15 +0000

Hayden hearings of May 18, 2006:
-Gen. Hayden’s opening remarks were excellent, especially the admonishment to the Senate (and by implication the Representatives who were also briefed repeatedly) to get the CIA out of the news “as sources and subjects”
-Chairman Roberts was visibly irritated the entire time, not at Gen. Hayden – his sarcastic remarks about those who have been repeatedly briefed, who then pontificate to the media, were very telling
-Sen. Wyden of Oregon was ‘little’ – Mr. Roberts set him straight on the jealousy he displayed for not having been briefed sooner.
-Sen. DeWine thinks he is a giant – much too full of himself!
-Very telling was the questioning of Sen. Feinstein. She asked as series of trapping questions, which Gen. Hayden intelligently and liberally moved to ‘closed session’; when she finished Mr. Wyden said to her “great questions”, to which she, unaware that her mic was still on said “but he didn’t answer any of them”. She is smart enough to know what he meant about ‘closed sessions’ – which means that her questioning was meant as a trap and just for the media – disgusting!
-What if the leaker/s to the NY Times and US News were not CIA doppelgangers, but in fact Senators/Representatives who’ve been briefed?

By: roninacreage

roninacreage — Fri, 19 May 2006 14:13:52 +0000

Was Bill Burkett their source?

By: Chris At Home

Chris At Home — Fri, 19 May 2006 07:10:12 +0000

Mark Steyn Again…

Mark isn’t happy and for good reason:Fifteen out of 19 of the 9/11 killers were citizens of Saudi Arabia. So let’s scrap the tens of millions of law ……

By: birdman

birdman — Fri, 19 May 2006 06:03:14 +0000

I heard today that Senator Carl Leven quoted from this story on the Senate floor after Bell South demanded the retraction. “What did he know and when did he know it”.

By: easy87us

easy87us — Fri, 19 May 2006 02:39:02 +0000

If you know internet protocol you know the nature of these sorts of program. All they need to do is to catch the signals at the server and the digital data ( except voice data)will fall into the net.

Only contents are protected by privacy law. It is like…reading the address on an envelop is not illegal. But reading the content without a warrant is.

I hope by now the stupid Democrats know what they are getting into.

Easy87us

By: Pablo

Pablo — Fri, 19 May 2006 02:14:10 +0000

Let’s not overlook this aspect.

“The National Security Agency developed a pilot program in the late 1990s that would have enabled it to gather and analyze huge amounts of communications data without running afoul of privacy laws.”

By: easy87us

easy87us — Fri, 19 May 2006 01:44:40 +0000

It is stupid for USA Today to print something without seeing the proof first, something like a memo, an authorization, or a contract.

Let printer beware. In fact, USA Today is now opened themselves to possibe litigation if they do not retract the story.

Easy87us

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Fri, 19 May 2006 01:00:12 +0000

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By: JammieWearingFool

JammieWearingFool — Thu, 18 May 2006 23:45:36 +0000

While they’re at it, can they do something about that creepy Kos commercial?