Surveillance Inside the US
We have idiots for Congressmen, or else totally unethical men who look for partisan advantage at every turn. This is a prime example, especially Arlan Specter and his "outrage" at the thought that our government would try to find out what is going on with cell phones calling to countries outside the US. This new world of ours is interconnected and vulnerable, not the least because everyone can carry a phone around and chat with coworkers in Iran or Palestine.
It is only prudent that such calls be monitored for potential terrorist activities. If this net also catches some drug dealers or other criminals, that is our good luck. You may evoke the idea of personal privacy all you want, but when terrorists are arranging their attack on a phone, I am very happy to have them tracked, caught, and prosecuted. I assume that all of my calls are able to be overheard anyway by the very nature of radio broadcast. It is as if I stood on the corner and chatted with a loud voice. That the monitoring had probable cause, and was allowed by the President in highly restricted cases, is assurance enough for me.
What I would like to know is who it was that told the world about the secret monitoring? He should be punished severely.
# posted by Mannning @ 11:03 PM
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