The F Word Goes CNN
by tristero
Cafferty and be sure to watch:
Cafferty: We all hope nothing happens to Arlen Specter, the Republican head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, cause he might be all that stands between us and a full blown dictatorship in this country. He’s vowed to question these phone company executives about volunteering to provide the government with my telephone records, and yours, and tens of millions of other Americans.
Shortly after 9/11, AT7T, Verizon, and BellSouth began providing the super-secret NSA with information on phone calls of millions of our citizens, all part of the War on Terror, President Bush says. Why don’t you go find Osama bin Laden, and seal the country’s borders, and start inspecting the containers that come into our ports?
The President rushed out this morning in the wake of this front page story in USA Today and declared the government is doing nothing wrong, and all this is just fine. Is it? Is it legal? Then why did the Justice Department suddenly drop its investigation of the warrantless spying on citizens because the NSA said Justice Department lawyers didn’t have the necessary security clearance to do the investigation. Read that sentence again. A secret government agency has told our Justice Department that it’s not allowed to investigate it. And the Justice Department just says ok and drops the whole thing. We’re in some serious trouble, boys and girls”
Yup. And one more time for the slow readers amongst us:
A secret government agency has told our Justice Department that it’s not allowed to investigate it. And the Justice Department just says ok and drops the whole thing.
But not to worry. The NY Times webpage greets us with this reassuring news: Bush Says U.S. Spying Is Not Widespread. And let’s face it, he’s right. After all there are, what, 250 million Americans, and Bush has only “obtained information on on numbers dialed by “tens of millions of Americans” and used it for ‘data mining.’ ”
That’s right. Tens of millions.Do the math, people, there’s no widespread spying in the US if less than 100 million people are being spied on and no one’s claiming that many. The spying effort is carefully focused on the mere 10’s of millions of evil Americans. Those of us, the good people, needn’t concern ourselves. And besides, we can’t. It’s too top secret.
Whew, for a moment there, I was worried.