28 January 2006
Bush Assumes Eavesdropping Conclusion
In defense of the listening in on American telephone conversations by the National Security Agency, President Bush recently stated, “Why tell the enemy what we’re doing if the program is necessary to protect the nation?” Americans’ right not to have privacy violated is based, in part, on the belief that it has not been proven that unsubstantiated eavesdropping has ever been an effective way to prevent crime. Moreover, is the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Court the enemy?
The only thing that the NSA program is necessary for, in absence of judicial review, is to create a need for more and more sophisticated electronic surveillance techniques and apparatus. (Another consequence of the program is the need for increased spending on personnel to do the eavesdropping.) This generates more revenues for supporters of the Republican regime in Washington, although it is not as lucrative as dropping bombs on Iraq.
In defense of the listening in on American telephone conversations by the National Security Agency, President Bush recently stated, “Why tell the enemy what we’re doing if the program is necessary to protect the nation?” Americans’ right not to have privacy violated is based, in part, on the belief that it has not been proven that unsubstantiated eavesdropping has ever been an effective way to prevent crime. Moreover, is the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Court the enemy?
The only thing that the NSA program is necessary for, in absence of judicial review, is to create a need for more and more sophisticated electronic surveillance techniques and apparatus. (Another consequence of the program is the need for increased spending on personnel to do the eavesdropping.) This generates more revenues for supporters of the Republican regime in Washington, although it is not as lucrative as dropping bombs on Iraq.
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