Data Rape
By Michael Reynolds | Related entries in Bad Decisions, Breaking News, General Politics, In The NewsMSNBC host and former conservative, Reaganite, GOP congressman Joe Scarborough on the latest unconstitutional travesty:
“Big Brother is listening. No, really. . . . Whatever you consider yourself, friends [liberal or conservative] you should be afraid, you should be very afraid. . . this domestic spying program is so widespread, it is so random, it is so far removed from focusing on the Al Qaeda suspects the president was talking about today, it’s hard to imagine any intelligence program in US history being so susceptible to abuse. . . It is dangerous, it breaks FCC laws, and it endangers all American’s right to privacy.”
Joe Scarborough: another crazy, America-hating, useful idiot for Al Qaeda.
Next up: your bank records? Your medical records? Your credit card records?
At what point will the fascist-enablers on the right finally stand up? Is there no point at which they will defend American freedom?
And, by the way, word comes that Congresswoman, minority leader Nancy Pelosi was briefed on this and said nothing, and raiused no objection. If that is true, Ms. Pelosi has betrayed her obligations and should resign her office.
(cross-posted from Mighty Middle.)
This entry was posted on Thursday, May 11th, 2006 and is filed under Bad Decisions, Breaking News, General Politics, In The News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
May 11th, 2006 at 11:17 pm
You might also want to put Feinstien and Reid on the list for The Night of the Long Knives. Reid was briefed but did not complain and Feinstien even supported the Hayden nomination after her briefing but before the information became public.
May 11th, 2006 at 11:36 pm
Feinstein’s comments are a little weird, and weaken the position, but there wasnt anything they could have done about it, and the information being classified they couldnt talk about it. And Congressional Republicans wouldnt let them actually do anything about it anyways.
May 12th, 2006 at 6:30 am
“Joe Scarborough: another crazy, America-hating, useful idiot for Al Qaeda.” Not the words of someone in the center.
May 12th, 2006 at 7:26 am
JP:
You may need to take a referesher course in satire.
May 12th, 2006 at 9:44 am
For an unconstitutional travesty the public is certainly unconcerned. ABC is reporting a poll on the subject this morning and 63% have no problem with the government looking at call records. 66% have no problem with the government looking at their own call records. 51% think Bush is doing a good job protecting individual privacy. They probably figure the phone companies sold this info to “affiliates” long ago.
May 12th, 2006 at 11:13 am
Brian,
Sample size
May 12th, 2006 at 2:11 pm
[...] Donklephant: Next up: your bank records? Your medical records? Your credit card records? [...]
May 12th, 2006 at 5:26 pm
Reid is too much of a coward for this fight. I guess he must have read the [i]Washington Post[/i]. When will the Democrats actually tell me what they stand for so I can consider their candidate before voting in November? It should be an easy question - you either agree or disagree with this tactic. What’s the hold-up? Do they need more information from Gallup to develop a national security platform?
May 12th, 2006 at 6:20 pm
This is perfectly legal, not only for cops/spooks, etc. but for anyone. It used to be called using a pen data recorder (in the days when I made my living debugging phones & living areas) and as long as the conversation wasn’t recorded no laws were broken.
Trouble is, doing everybody’s phone can provide other data that they want apart from terrorism, etc.
May 13th, 2006 at 4:43 pm
What Dark Rider said.
The question of legality isn’t so much the issue as it is, why on earth they’re doing something so dumb and incredibly ineffective? That and perhaps, why isn’t this more explicitly illegal like it should be?