What we have here is a failure to communicate...
Some time ago my son, okaminokaze, dressed me down in a big way over my assertions the Federal Government could listen in on the cell phone calls of terrorists with out a warrant. As it turns out he was under the impression the government was conducting surveillance on domestic (US to US) phone calls without warrants and that I was endorsing the policy.
We were talking apples and oranges. Other then some editorial speculation, no where has it been published (by a legitimate news source) that the United States government is conducting warrant-less eavesdropping on purely domestic phone calls. The only eavesdropping that has been conducted without a warrant has been on foreign nationals (a/k/a foreign agents) which is allowed under the National Security Act, Patriot Act and Authorization For Use of Military Force.
My son thought I was defending a blatant constitutional violation. I thought he was defending eavesdropping on terrorists and enemy agents in their own back yards. No wonder each of us had thought the other off their rocker.
See what happens when the rumor mill gets out of control?
There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can.
- Bob Woodward
We were talking apples and oranges. Other then some editorial speculation, no where has it been published (by a legitimate news source) that the United States government is conducting warrant-less eavesdropping on purely domestic phone calls. The only eavesdropping that has been conducted without a warrant has been on foreign nationals (a/k/a foreign agents) which is allowed under the National Security Act, Patriot Act and Authorization For Use of Military Force.
My son thought I was defending a blatant constitutional violation. I thought he was defending eavesdropping on terrorists and enemy agents in their own back yards. No wonder each of us had thought the other off their rocker.
See what happens when the rumor mill gets out of control?
There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can.
- Bob Woodward