Swell Idea.
It appears that the NSA has extremely sophisticated technology that can sift out and identify suspicious patters of telephone calls from the millions (billions?) of calls placed in the U.S. This could be a tremendous tool for thwarting terrorist plans.
Therefore, it seems perfectly sensible that some Americans are demanding that the program be scrapped and the data destroyed. Why stop there? Perhaps we ought to dismantle the NSA completely? That way, when some of us are blown to smithereens or killed slowly with biological or chemical agents, those who were not targeted can bask in the glow of knowing that their privacy was protected.
I think the worry is if/when somebody in the Gummit decides that simply trying to identify terrorist suspects isn’t enough, and that a too-noisy political opponent or political movement constitutes a “threat” also. (something like Hoover’s FBI did, Nixon’s plumbers, etc.)
Comment by DMerriman — May 18, 2006 @ 4:26 am
The NSA needs to listen to my phone calls…they would be so bored they would dismantle the organization and go to the ATF, or Homeland Secuirty….bored I am telling you…
Comment by armywifetoddlermom — May 18, 2006 @ 2:48 pm
I’m aight with the NSA, it’s the ATF I don’t want messin’ with me… Hell, I put the A, and the T, in the ATF.
Comment by RedNeck — May 18, 2006 @ 9:23 pm
Neck – You need more F in your life to complete the picture 🙂
Comment by Harvey — May 22, 2006 @ 3:39 pm