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Geggy
Jan 20th, 2006, 04:55 PM
I know. I can't help myself.

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Justice_Department_to_declare_warrantless_wiretaps _0119.html

By the way Raw Story is where I get most of the news source from
Kulturkampf
Jan 20th, 2006, 11:55 PM
Only for international phone calls, where one person is a non-US person, and it is limited to tracking down folks who are suspectd of terrorism; if someone is getting a phoen call from a knon al-Qaeda related number, there msut be some sort of observation of what is happening.

I doubt that this threatens the freedom of average Americans.
ScruU2wice
Jan 21st, 2006, 12:57 AM
Yeah a person calling some place outside the country, isn't an average american...
Geggy
Jan 21st, 2006, 04:36 AM
Yeah but my question is how long have they've been doing this? Since sept. 11?

The wiretapping program isn't working, otherwise the Madrid bombing, the London bombing, the Jordan bombing, etc, all of which al-Qaeda has claimed responsibility, would've been prevented.

Something just don't fly.
El Blanco
Jan 21st, 2006, 11:04 AM
Why would wire tapping American phones have affected any of those attacks?

Not that I'm all that excited about warrantless wiretaps. You statement just made little if any sense.
Kulturkampf
Jan 22nd, 2006, 07:15 AM
Yeah but my question is how long have they've been doing this? Since sept. 11?

The wiretapping program isn't working, otherwise the Madrid bombing, the London bombing, the Jordan bombing, etc, all of which al-Qaeda has claimed responsibility, would've been prevented.

Something just don't fly.

Terrorist plots have been uncovered before, and a lot of the details are unknown as to how they were cracked (we do not want terrorists to know how we do it), so there is a lot of gray area in wat you are saying.

Sleeper cells are a tough thing to break, I reckon.