Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania (who must believe that there's a secret wiretap on every phone) is already promising hearings on the matter. Another Republican, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, openly wondered how "collecting phone numbers" fits in with "finding the enemies." Give me a break...The data mining operation fits in quite well, Senator. To win the war on terror, we need to track down the bad guys. They talk on telephones, and sometimes place multiple calls to the same number. Using that data, we can identify links and nodes in the terrorist world, allowing us to better direct our surveillance efforts, and eventually, neutralize that cell. If a number in, say, Pakistan is getting a lot of traffic from the U.S., why not monitor that number? The calls may be completely innocent, but they might provide a harbinger of planned terrorist attacks. This program is only a "threat" to Americans with Osama on their speed dial, or Zawahiri in their "friends and family" calling circle....,Links and Nodes, Spook 86, Formerspook.blogspot.com
Spook 86 offers a public service here to those ill-served by hysterics in the press who've allied themselves with politically-motivated hysterics on the Hill. Perhaps we can convince the new anchor at CBS to read the whole piece; she might be enlightened. An anchor should be enlightened if she has any pretensions of keeping CBS News in a port that serves American audiences.
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