The NSA does not tap US phones. The FBI (and state & local police) does -
with court order. All court orders for taps are and have always been
clandestine/confidential, whether you're thought to be a terrorist, a
Mafioso or Joe bank robber. Clandestine court orders remain confidential for
the duration of the investigation. Judges will not accept never ending
investigations to keep records confidential.
The NSA does not tap foreign phones. The CIA does. ALL governments do this.
The NSA constructs and contracts to construct cryptographic equipment,
provides daily keys for said equipment and governs their use. The NSA
listens to foreign radio (RF) broadcasts from around the world (both from
inside the US and from inside other countries with their permission) and
decrypts encoded information. In addition to this, the NSA collects other RF
emissions (such radar signatures, etc.) to identify and characterize the
capabilities and locations of the equipment. Neither the NSA nor the CIA
operate overhead (satellite) equipment. The NRO (National Reconnaissance
Office) does this. The CIA & NSA would be users of this information.
Regardless of the misinformation we've all heard, the NSA does not tap
domestic phones and would only get involved in anyone's telephone or
computer traffic when asked to attempt to decrypt court warranted
information for the FBI, Secret service, DEA, State or local police as
asked.
Amendment IV is the pertinent Amendment...
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and
effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated,
and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or
affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the
persons or things to be seized.
Nothing in this 4th Amendment requires the warrants to be public such that
criminals can know their phones are being tapped or that their abodes have
been searched. The warrants must be presented if searchers are challenged,
as it is the only defense against government searches and seizures.
Regards,
Bob...
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From: <dave6134@xxxxxxxxxxx>
I don't understand why all this sudden whining regarding federal phone and
email snooping. It has been in place for years. Doesn't anyone remembers
Algore's "Clipper chip" endeavor of 1993 or the CALEA (communications
Assistance for Law Enforcement Act of 1994) of the Clintinesta regime.
The NSA , the National Security Agency (otherwise known as "No Such
Agency") has tapped phones world wide with huge installations in Canada,
covering eastern Russia and the north pacific, UK for the north Atlantic
and western Europe, Turkey, covering the middle east, and Australia and
New Zealand for Pacific Rim coverage.
There has been a special secret court authorizing clandestine "National
Security" wire taps for years which has never refused an FBI request tap
request, ever. This isn't black helicopter and blue helmat conspiracy
nonsense, it is fact. Enter clipper chip and calea on any search engine
for literally millions of articles.
It is amazing how the libdem media was able to ignore fifteen years ago
what it now severely castigates the Bush administration for today.
Dave
East Englewood
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