The Sky is Falling Again [NSA Phone Records]

The American Thinker ^ | May 16, 2006 | Bob Wier

[Let's Roll]

You're right, of course.

We shouldn't be using our high tech advantage to fight this war, we should just turn the ME into a parking lot.

A solution that becomes ever more likely/popular with the left's insistence on not using said high tech advantage.

[syriacus]

US government kept records of addresses of citizenry and opened mail during WWII:

Consequently, [A.S. Hudson -- administrator of the Fort Lincoln Detention Station] sought authorization to bring in a full-time German-speaking intelligence officer to eavesdrop on the detainees and to gather information on the nearby populace.

Some of the citizenry, he feared, might assist in escape attempts. Intelligence work, he argued, should also include examination of the detainees' incoming and outgoing mail in order to determine their attitudes.

On the basis of this opinion, Hudson and his staff set up index cards for each detainee, recording on them the names and addresses on all outgoing mail and the writers' names, addresses, and dates of arrival on all incoming mail. This practice would soon become standard procedure at all the INS camps.

A sampling of mail was to be opened and read. In addition, the chief patrol inspector ordered incoming packages inspected for unspecified contraband prior to delivery to the Germans.

[tobyhill]

Bellsouth is flat-out denying they ever gave any phone records to the NSA. I know some high level people at one of the three companies mentioned and they too are denying they ever gave any phone records to the NSA but were only confirming through their statement that they always comply within normal lawful request nothing more, nothing less. I have heard 2 high level people at this company speaking of a extremely major lawsuit against the media. USA Today is now claiming that non-acknowledgment of the program was confirmation of the program and that's why they ran the story.