skippy the bush kangaroo: i spy with my little eye...

Thursday, May 11, 2006

i spy with my little eye...

blogtopia (yes! we coined that phrase!) weighs in on usatoady's reveal that awol and tpc* are listening to everything america says:

maru the crankpot points out that "nsa has "massive database" of americans' phone calls ...but "can't find" how many times convicted felon jack abramoff visited the bush white house."

glenn greenwald opines:

it is true that, strictly speaking, at least based on what we know, the government has not used pen registers here. they didn't need to. instead of collecting this information telephone-by-telephone, they just skipped the whole pen register annoyance and had the telecommunications companies give them all of that information for every phone. still, it is hard to imagine (at least for people acting in good faith) how it could be illegal for the government to use a pen register device without a court order for a single phone (it appears clear that that is illegal), but it is perfectly legal for the government to obtain pen register information for everyone's phone in the country without bothering to obtain a court order of any kind.

to awol's insistance that the government is "not mining or trolling," atrios asks, "um, so you're collecting this massive database and just... letting it sit there?"

talkleft discusses the a t & t whistleblower who outed the whole domestic spying program.

christy hardin smith at fdl suggests everyone call their congressjerks (and senatorjerks) and tell them how you feel about your government and giant telecommunications companies conspiring to spy on americans irrespective of the laws of the land. jane, meanwhile, wants to know why all the democrats in congress haven't signed onto rep. john conyers amicus briefs against awol; and georgia10 at dkos suggests you contact the phone companies.

lastly, athenae at first draft simply says, "we told you so."

*tpc = the out-of-date punchline to "the president's analyst"

posted by skippy at 2:26 PM |