Austinist: We Like Our Beer Cold, Our Barbeque Hot and Our Presidents Unscrupulous As All Hell, Or Something

Bah Humbug!

Wed, 21 Dec 2005 12:59:24 -0600

President had legal authority to OK taps By John Schmidt Published December 21, 2005 http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-0512210142dec21,1,2062394.story?coll=chi-technology-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true The author served as associate attorney general of the United States under President Clinton

citizen Able

Tue, 20 Dec 2005 15:10:59 -0600

Echelon complied with FISA. Before any conversations of U.S. persons were targeted, a FISA warrant was obtained. CIA director George Tenet testified to this before Congress on 4/12/00: "I'm here today to discuss specific issues about and allegations regarding Signals Intelligence activities and the so-called Echelon Program of the National Security Agency. There is a rigorous regime of checks and balances which we, the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency and the FBI scrupulously adhere to whenever conversations of U.S. persons are involved, whether directly or indirectly. We do not collect against U.S. persons unless they are agents of a foreign power as that term is defined in the law. We do not target their conversations for collection in the United States unless a FISA warrant has been obtained from the FISA court by the Justice Department."

Bah Humbug!

Mon, 19 Dec 2005 12:15:15 -0600

All of the Congressmen and Senators claiming outrage now have known all along what was going on. Even Sen. Harry Reid knew about this. Also, the NSA's "Echelon" program has been keeping tabs on American since the Clinton administration. Spin? There is more spin coming from the media outlets and the Democrats on this than in a room full of washing machines...

um

Sun, 18 Dec 2005 20:16:03 -0600

completely off-topic, but what happened to uber?