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May 12, 2006
Media Busted Yet Again
If you don't believe that the front page splash in USA Today and the manufactured hysteria by the Democrats (and some jump-the-shark Republicans) was coordinated to coincide with the confirmation of General Hayden to head the CIA, what if I told you that this story was reported almost verbatim in December 2005? Why report it again just a week before the hearings? Could it be that Democrats were backing off the NSA Terrorist Eavesdropping complaints because they knew it was both legal and necessary?
December 24, 2005
Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove, Officials Report
By ERIC LICHTBLAU and JAMES RISEN
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 - 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.
The volume of information harvested from telecommunication data and voice networks, without court-approved warrants, is much larger than the White House has acknowledged [because it's a national secret!], the officials said. It was collected by tapping directly into some of the American telecommunication system's main arteries, they said.
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. [emphasis added]
Now, what precisely did we learn yesterday from USA Today that was not in this article printed 6 months ago?
Not a damn thing.
Posted by Aaron at May 12, 2006 07:49 AM
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