Warrantless eavesdropping OK
p2pnet.net news:- A White House board has decided White House electronic eavesdropping and financial tracking spy programs don’t violate citizens’ civil liberties, says Associated Press.
“After operating mostly in secret for a year,” the five-member Privacy and Civil Liberties Board finds the National Security Agency’s warrantless eavesdropping program and the Treasury Department’s monitoring of international banking transactions, “have sufficient privacy protections, three board members said in telephone interviews,” says AP, quoting chairwoman Carol Dinkins as saying:
“We looked at the program, we visited NSA and met with the top people all the way down to those doing the hands-on work. The program is structured and implemented in a way that is properly protective and attentive to civil liberties.”
“So who is Carol Dinkins, the woman who is going to stand athwart the government and make sure that even though our rights have technically been legislated away, the government isn’t going to actually going to violate what would have been our rights if we still had them?” – asked jmhm.livejournal.com in 2005 when news of the board’s creation was announced.
“Well,” it says, “she’s a partner at Vinkins and Elkin, which you may remember as Enron’s … lawfirm.”
She’s their environmental specialist and she’s worked for, “chemical and energy companies, developers, utilities, transportation interests, and a variety of municipal and governmental entities in proceedings under state and federal environmental and natural resources laws,” says the post, and, “I invite you to ponder the role of an environmental specialist working for chemical and energy coumpanies, developers, utilities and transportation interests for a lawfirm in Texas.”
Also See:
Associated Press – AP: White House board says eavesdropping program OK, March 5, 2007
jmhm.livejournal.com – Sisyphus Shrugged – it just gets better, June 12, 2005
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March 6th, 2007 at 11:49 am
The BS comity does not has a shreed of credibility and no more than the Bushy idiot administration!
March 6th, 2007 at 12:42 pm
So the wolf says to the sheep, “Of course I’m not going to eat you. Why on earth would I do that?”
March 6th, 2007 at 12:58 pm
thank you for your intelligent contribution to discussion
March 6th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
hmmm, I guess it’s ok for Bush to do this cause if anyone listened to his conversations, it’s be treason or spying, either way you’d be a ‘tourist’.
What the hell does he have against visitiors to the country anyway?
March 6th, 2007 at 6:51 pm
Outraged, and Bush/Cheney need to be put to rest in a retirement home, along with any Rightwing Democrat and all GOP Rightwingers. Time for a regime change in the WH that will restore the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.