f**kers

you know we all KNOW they ARE spying on us. however, i figured it was people like me. you know, NOT a terrorist but someone with a big fat mouth. but to f**king SPY ON OUR HEROES IN IRAQ. are we going to sit back and take this one up the ass too (like everything else king george has tried to shove up there)?

i never thought it would happen. never in a million years. never to us and NEVER to them (our enlisted heroes)


ABC: NSA agents admit spying on Americans' private calls
David Edwards and Muriel Kane
The Bush administration has repeatedly defended its warrantless surveillance of Americans as being directed only against "people with known links to al Qaeda and related terrorist organizations."

Now two intercept operators who worked for the National Security Agency at Fort Gordon in Georgia have come forward to tell ABC News that isn't true.

David Murfee Faulk described to ABC's Brian Ross how he had listened to "personal phone calls of American officers, mostly in the Green Zone [in Baghdad], calling home to the United States, talking to their spouses and sometimes their girlfriends."

"Co-workers of mine were ordered to transcribe these calls," Faulk stated. "When one of my co-workers went to a supervisor and said, 'But sir, these are personal calls,' the supervisor said, 'My orders were to transcribe everything.'"
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this is maryland

if you don't think it happens in YOUR state or nationally, THINK AGAIN

(pssssst, it DOES)
(pssssssssssssttttttttttt, this USED to be america. the land of the FREE and home of the brave. we used to be able to protest. it was among our many rights. we used to be able to speak up, speak out, speak against if we felt unjustices or wrongdoings - it was among our many rights. )

oh you think this is ok? well wait until YOUR name appears on a list

Md. Police Put Activists' Names On Terror Lists

Surveillance's Reach Revealed

By Lisa Rein

Washington Post Staff Writer
The Maryland State Police classified 53 nonviolent activists as terrorists and entered their names and personal information into state and federal databases that track terrorism suspects, the state police chief acknowledged yesterday.

Police Superintendent Terrence B. Sheridan revealed at a legislative hearing that the surveillance operation, which targeted opponents of the death penalty and the Iraq war, was far more extensive than was known when its existence was disclosed in July.

The department started sending letters of notification Saturday to the activists, inviting them to review their files before they are purged from the databases, Sheridan said......

yet MORE good news (NOT)

from YOUR king and his court. more ignoring of our constitution, our rights and our liberties.
why isn't anyone arresting them for the crimes they HAVE committed and ARE committing?

well the spinless pieces of steamin' shite that are our senate and our congress don't seem to be doing anything (except interviewing major league baseball players)

Administration Set to Use New Spy Program in U.S.
Congressional Critics Want More Assurances of Legality

By Spencer S. HsuWashington Post Staff Writer
The Bush administration said yesterday that it plans to start using the nation's most advanced spy technology for domestic purposes soon, rebuffing challenges by House Democrats over the idea's legal authority.
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said his department will activate his department's new domestic satellite surveillance office in stages, starting as soon as possible with traditional scientific and homeland security activities -- such as tracking hurricane damage, monitoring climate change and creating terrain maps.
Sophisticated overhead sensor data will be used for law enforcement once privacy and civil rights concerns are resolved, he said. The department has previously said the program will not intercept communications.
"There is no basis to suggest that this process is in any way insufficient to protect the privacy and civil liberties of Americans," Chertoff wrote to Reps. Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.) and Jane Harman (D-Calif.), chairmen of the House Homeland Security Committee and its intelligence subcommittee, respectively, in letters released yesterday. ..........

get a warrant

it's EASY. what the f**k is the problem here? better yet, if you want to read MY emails (and they do at work by the way. they keep them on file - has to do with nasd or something or other. please don't even get me started on what we have to do for the PATRIOT ACT. i work in the insurance/financial industry. if you only knew the kinds of problems and the work - YES I PERSONALLY HAD TO DO- the patriot act caused. you'd tap me on the shoulder and say, 'there there a rose is a rose. is there anything i can do?) ASK ME. if i'm in a decent enough mood (ok ok, that's rare), you never know. i MAY say oui. then again, i may not. GET A WARRANT

oh and one more thing. i'm NOT a terrorist or a spy or a traitor or an ugly american. i do NOT cheat on my taxes (really), i don't steal. i try not to lie and i'm watching out for both my elderly father AND my elderly landlord.
Lawsuits May Illuminate Methods of Spy Program


By Dan Eggen Washington Post Staff Writer

In 2003, Room 641A of a large telecommunications building in downtown San Francisco was filled with powerful data-mining equipment for a "special job" by the National Security Agency, according to a former AT&T technician. It was fed by fiber-optic cables that siphoned copies of e-mails and other online traffic from one of the largest Internet hubs in the United States, the former employee says in court filings.
What occurred in the room is now at the center of a pivotal legal battle in a federal appeals court over the Bush administration's controversial spying program, including the monitoring that came to be publicly known as the Terrorist Surveillance Program..........

i am STILL so very angry my state voted this man

who is CLEARLY not quite right, back into office. makes me think my fellow citizens are NOT QUITE RIGHT either



(and by the way, i am NOT against surveillance of ANY kind as long as it is done WITHIN THE LAWS)



Lieberman calls for wider use of surveillance cameras




By Klaus Marre
July 01, 2007
Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.), the chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, said Sunday he wants to “more widely” use surveillance cameras across the country.
“The Brits have got something smart going in England, and it was part of why I believe they were able to so quickly apprehend suspects in the terrorist acts over the weekend, and that is they have cameras all over London and other of their major cities,” Lieberman said.“I think it’s just common sense to do that here much more widely,” he added. “And of course, we can do it without compromising anybody’s real privacy.”Lieberman lamented the “petty, partisan fighting” in Congress and called on his colleagues to join together to upgrade the nation’s electronic surveillance capabilities............

they broke the laws

our laws. they shredded the constitution, our constitution. this, all at the direction of king george and his court. the papers report it. we talk about it. perhaps a person or two or three goes to court over it, YET NOTHING EVER COMES OF IT. ah, maybe a little person does a bit of time but the big boys NEVER get a finger laid upon them.

why?

it's NOT right for someone to look at our mail, listen to our calls, look at our bank records WITHOUT a warrant. and i'm guessing those warrants aren't that hard to come by either

so

WHY?

FBI Finds It Frequently Overstepped in Collecting Data


By John Solomon Washington Post Staff Writer

An internal FBI audit has found that the bureau potentially violated the law or agency rules more than 1,000 times while collecting data about domestic phone calls, e-mails and financial transactions in recent years, far more than was documented in a Justice Department report in March that ignited bipartisan congressional criticism.
The new audit covers just 10 percent of the bureau's national security investigations since 2002, and so the mistakes in the FBI's domestic surveillance efforts probably number several thousand, bureau officials said in interviews. The earlier report found 22 violations in a much smaller sampling..............