Posted on 12/20/2005 1:18:36 PM PST by Froufrou
Dear journalists of the New York Times,
Perhaps you'd like to take a few moments to gather yourselves and figure out which of your stories are correct and which stories are politically motivated fabrications.
COURT SAYS U.S. SPY AGENCY CAN TAP OVERSEAS MESSAGES By DAVID BURNHAM, SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES (NYT) 1051 words Published: November 7, 1982
A Federal appeals court has ruled that the National Security Agency may lawfully intercept messages between United States citizens and people overseas, even if there is no cause to believe the Americans are foreign agents, and then provide summaries of these messages to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Because the National Security Agency is among the largest and most secretive intelligence agencies and because millions of electronic messages enter and leave the United States each day, lawyers familiar with the intelligence agency consider the decision to mark a significant increase in the legal authority of the Government to keep track of its citizens.
Reverses 1979 Ruling
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Big Bump. And the comment section has a lot of good info too.
I don't understand why some think the NYT's can be shamed into reform. They know exactly what they are doing. Its deliberate propaganda.
Of course we already knew that!
time for some PO'd SOF guys on leave from Iraq/Afgahnistan to burn the NYT building to the ground...it is an instrument of the terrorists.
Those Bozos probably thing they are bring the light of truth to the masses, when those of us who know the facts...see their darkness.
NYT journocrats, those clowns...should move to Cuba.
The NYT is still in denial that their Abu Ghraib fabrications didn't bring down the Presidency.
A "scandal" a month no longer has the impact that it once had, due in no small part to alternative sources of news such as talk radio, Fox News, and the Internet.
A long time ago, the NYT could break a Presidency by publishing lies or by lying via omission of pertinent facts.
No longer.
I know, it's really no big surprise, is it? But the thought of NYT getting a little - oh, it's Christmas, make it a LOT - of come-uppance is truly delicious to me! And easy on the calories, too! ;o)
Thanks for identifying that silver lining!
"Absolute power corrupts absolutely!"
A Democrat President who, it might be added, was not actively commanding world wide combat operations against a foe who had all ready committed mass murder on American soil. This is NOT just tough partisanship you have engaged in here. Your story is a KNOWINGLY told lie that actively aids the enemies of the USA. That is treason. You no longer are a credible source of news. Frankly you really ought no longer be afforded the protections of US Citizenship. You are our enemy. Your actions will be neither forgotten nor forgiven.
No, offense, but the question is not whether the NSA is allowed to spy on these communications, but whether they are allowed to do it without a warrant.
NYT: Another swamp that needs to be drained
Ozone alert
I heard that argument, too. However, I also heard that of the 1900 times the matter was brought forth for such warrants, there were only four or five times they were denied. Moot point, I'd say.
Thank you, Lizarde! Good to see you!
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They are if either end of the conversation involves a "foreign agent." They are technically spying on the foreign agent.
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