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Saturday, December 24, 2005

Media Outraged At NSA Doing Its Job

The New York Times has more hyperventilating about NSA intelligence programs today Jeff Goldstein and Michelle Malkin have lengthy reactions up, as does Big Lizards:

The left-stream media then breathlessly informed us that the CIA had scandalously started keeping the most important terrorist prisoners of war (without warrants) in prisons other than Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay. Hm....

Subsequently, we were treated to the scandal that the NSA had actually begun doing its job after 9/11, unlike the CIA, which had applied for the new job of leaking classified information to damage American security on the off chance that, like chemotherapy, such leaks would destroy the Bush “cancer” faster than they destroyed the country.

The media reported to us that the FBI domestic counterterrorism bureau was unfathomably keeping tabs on domestic terrorist groups and those who supported them. Then they whispered in our ears that the tyrannical Big Brother at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. was deliberately and with malice aforethought checking for possible radiation leakage around various mosques and other Moslem sites in the United States that were well-known for having terrorist sympathies. And now, finally—actually, while I hope it’s “finally,” I rather doubt it—the Times completes its tribute to the late Jack Anderson by telling us that, in addition to eavesdropping on the phone calls and e-mails of known al-Qaeda groups abroad and suspected terrorist agents here at home, the NSA has also been monitoring traffic patterns surrounding these same terrorist plotters. Quelle horreur!

Having nailed down the actual terrorism-supporting vote for the next election, the Times and the rest of the MSM appear determined to seize the entire September 10th population of the United States as well.

Evidently, next November’s election bids fair to be the War Between the Dates: the 10th vs. the 11th. I wonder which is stronger in today’s America?


I'd like to think its the 11th, but one gets the impression from the media and the political left that it will be the 10th.

Comments

Avatar for Carrick

It looks like the speculation on the web about how the NSA was doing the intercepts is pretty accurate.  As I privately suspected, the NSA has obtained cooperation from US firms to give them backdoor access to the data stream going through the international telecommunications switches.

One thing that the NY Times article doesn’t emphasize is that, we are talking about an enormous volume of data here, and there is no way that human beings could possibly sort through such a large volume.  That is why a data mining program that automatically culls out a much smaller subset of data is critical for the concept to work.

I haven’t really pointed this out, but it would be routine to put in place limits on the data that are being culled to prevent intercepts of domestic-to-domestic and other proscribes intercepts.  Thus, the program is working pretty much exactly the way Bush described, he just didn’t give away all of the technical details.

Thanks to the New York Times, we now have a better picture of what we would need to do in order to hide our communications with al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations.  After all, that’s what civil liberties are all about, don’t you think?

Carrick on December 24, 2005 at 09:12 am
Avatar for docdave

Carrick: “Thanks to the New York Times, we now have a better picture of what we would need to do in order to hide our communications with al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations. After all, that’s what civil liberties are all about, don’t you think?”

More importantly how do we hide it from the traitors in the NYT.

Iowahawk has done it again, a great parody on the surveillance issue. Check it out.
http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/

docdave on December 24, 2005 at 03:12 pm
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