Comments on: SJC: Goldsmith Testimony, Part I

By: BARTLEBEE

BARTLEBEE — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:22:34 +0000

This capability was developed during Clintons term, but wasn’t perfected. And when it was perfected, Bush immediate “turned it on” using a presidential “signing statement”.

Thanks to the magic of digitized voice and data warehousing, everything you’ve said on the phone since sometime in 2001 is stored somewhere at an NSA facility, in huge SANS networks, waiting to be later “data mined” when the government needs to know something about you.

Its not some of us who he’s listening to without a warrant.

Its ALL of us.

By: BARTLEBEE

BARTLEBEE — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:21:22 +0000

Think about it. In 2003 we learned from CNN (sooner if you saw the movie “Enemy of the State”) about how super computers at NSA ‘START‘ recording whenever someone says certain keywords on the phone, like bomb, airplane, etc.

Now, knowing that simple fact, ask yourself this question.

If they can “START” recording when you say certain keywords, how did they KNOW you said those words in the first place?

Let he who has ears to hear, let them hear.

By: BARTLEBEE

BARTLEBEE — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:18:06 +0000

The reason Bush doesn’t want the spying program talked about, is because he knows that people will learn the truth.

The truth, that he’s been spying on EVERYONE.

Not just a few of us. ALL of us.

By: radiofreewill

radiofreewill — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:48:31 +0000

Leahy: Don’t you think if we are being asked to retro-actively immunize the Telecoms, shouldn’t the Congress review the legal basis for the original decision first?

Goldsmith: Yes

By: yellowdog jim

yellowdog jim — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:47:24 +0000

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By: Helen

Helen — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:47:03 +0000

Leahy - anytime anyone questions white house they pull out the “against or with terrortsts card” Is this appropriate? Isn’t this a crying wolf thing?

Gold: when I was inside the govt I did not think that govt was exagerating the threat.

leahy - oh there is a threat. What I am concerned about is that everyone raises a disagreement or even suggests that there’s a better way to do something; they are told there’s only one way.

By: egregious

egregious — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:44:33 +0000

New Christy liveblog thread:

SJC Goldsmith Testimony Part II

Please minimize your comments and stay on-topic, it really helps Christy, thanks.

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:43:41 +0000

twȝk @ 101

RevDeb @ 99

Hugely important issue stakes enormously high—

spying on citizens illegally— ya think?

espionage?

wiretapping UN officials accessing intercepts of Colin Powell?

By: newtonusr

newtonusr — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:41:55 +0000

Leahy up

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:41:37 +0000

Whitehouse: Deputy Attorney General Comey racing through town with emergency lights on (the only time he had ever turned them on) and taking the hospital stairs at a “dead run”.

Earlier Whitehouse read Goldsmith’s desription of Comey “a seasoned prosecutor, most level headed person I know in government”