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26 Dec 2005 07:02:46 AM |
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OT: Email spying claim fuels wiretapping scandal |
Email spying claim fuels wiretapping scandal
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article335055.ece
By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles
Published: 26 December 2005
Secret domestic wiretaps authorised by US President George Bush led to
the National Security Agency gaining access to the country's main
telephone switches in a vast operation to mine data from phone calls
and emails.
The New York Times, the paper that broke the wiretap story, cited
disclosures from current and former government officials that the
surveillance operation was far broader than anything admitted by the
White House and involved the co-operation of private telecoms
companies.
Andrew Gumbel
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/e6ebbe6876aafddd
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26 Dec 2005 07:15:35 AM |
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maff wrote:
Email spying claim fuels wiretapping scandal
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article335055.ece
By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles
Published: 26 December 2005
Secret domestic wiretaps authorised by US President George Bush led to
the National Security Agency gaining access to the country's main
telephone switches in a vast operation to mine data from phone calls
and emails.
The New York Times, the paper that broke the wiretap story, cited
disclosures from current and former government officials that the
surveillance operation was far broader than anything admitted by the
White House and involved the co-operation of private telecoms
companies.
Andrew Gumbel
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/e6ebbe6876aafddd
Bush's Snoopgate
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10536559/site/newsweek/
The president was so desperate to kill The New York Times'
eavesdropping story, he summoned the paper's editor and publisher to
the Oval Office. But it wasn't just out of concern about national
security.
WEB-EXCLUSIVE COMMENTARY
By Jonathan Alter
Newsweek
Updated: 5:48 p.m. ET Dec. 21, 2005
Dec. 19, 2005 - Finally we have a Washington scandal that goes beyond
sex, corruption and political intrigue to big issues like security
versus liberty and the reasonable bounds of presidential power.
President Bush came out swinging on Snoopgate-he made it seem as if
those who didn't agree with him wanted to leave us vulnerable to Al
Qaeda-but it will not work. We're seeing clearly now that Bush
thought 9/11 gave him license to act like a dictator, or in his own
mind, no doubt, like Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War.
Jonathan Alter
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/c90f31ce098f8692
The 'I Word'
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10564288/site/newsweek/
Expect 2006 to offer up Nixon-era nastiness and a chorus of calls to
impeach Bush.
WEB EXCLUSIVE
By Howard Fineman
Newsweek
Updated: 5:59 p.m. ET Dec. 21, 2005
Dec. 21, 2005 - In the first weeks and months after 9/11, I am told by
a very good source, there was a lot of wishing out loud in the White
House Situation Room about expanding the National Security Agency's
ability to instantly monitor phone calls and e-mails between American
callers and possible terror suspects abroad. "We talked a lot about
how useful that would be," said this source, who was "in the
room" in the critical period after the attacks.
Howard Fineman
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/2ad28866da213489
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