Big Brother Bush

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Wed, 21 Dec 2005 06:30:01 -0800 (PST)

Big Brother Bush

 

 

http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2005/12/big-brother-bush.html

 

 

 

Xymphora

 

Big Brother Bush

 

 

December 20, 2005

 

The answer to the mystery of the NSA snooping scandal - why did they

break the law when it was so ludicrously easy to get FISA warrants? -

appears to be developing: they weren't just wiretapping, they were

data mining.

 

They were using Echelon to 'Able Danger' the whole country (this is

Poindexter's Total Information Awareness, which is supposedly dead, in

action).

 

The problem is that FISA was enacted prior to the current capability

for data mining, and didn't anticipate how ubiquitous it could be. The

reason they couldn't use FISA is that they would have had to obtain a

FISA warrant for every person in the country.

 

Data mining requires that you follow each link discovered by your

snooping, and wouldn't work if it had to be subjected to FISA or the

Constitution.

 

The NYT article, now being spun as resisted by the Bush Administration

(as if the NYT would publish anything without Rove's say-so), appears

to itself be part of the spinning, a limited hang-out to cover up the

bigger scandal.