Laughable claims about the NSA “Scandal”

American Thinker ^ | January 3, 2006 | Clarice Feldman

[Quilla]

Excellent analysis.

[Peach]

Congressman Pete Hoekstraw (sp?) was just on FNC explaining about the briefings Congress received from the administration regarding the NSA spying matter.

He was so detailed about the briefings, it's hard to believe Democrats are going to complain now that they didn't understand the nature of the spying.

[litehaus]

Guess the MSM has forgotten ---Carnivore, Echelon, huh?

[freema]

I agree.

I also expect this investigation to be one hell of a lot shorter and much more efficient than the Fitz BS seems to be.

[Quilla]

Rowley became the darling of the media and the left for essentially accusing the President of failing to ignore the very legalities which are now trumpeted as being outrageously violated by him. Once again, the left and its media allies demonstrate their “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” stance toward George W. Bush. It is hypocrisy of a high order.

Denying they were properly briefed is yet another example of their hypocrisy. Shameful.

[Publius6961]

and the normal law enforcement model using warrants constitutes an archaic and impossible hurdle.

That model never in recorded history has been considered rational or even reasonable.
It is a pathological and embarrassing recent development in the ultimate deterioration of political helplessness.

[Publius6961]

... Even retroactive authorization may be too cumbersome and in any event ...

Particularly so if the concept of treason has, in deed if not in word, ceased to be a capital offense.

[OldYank1]

Federal Shield Law???????

Congress needs to pass a law forbidding any sort of shield in these cases. Protection should be given to whistle blowers only when they report actual abuses to the proper authorities. There is no circumstance where the proper authority could possibly include a reporter. If the charges are true, they can be brought to the public attention by the proper authority but if proved false, the whistle blower should lose all rights of protection and should be subject to prosecution.

It's about time the media was held responsible for what they print. Nameless sources should be outlawed for the sake of accurate and truthful journalism.

[atomicpossum]

Because executive editor Bill Keller and publisher Arthur “Pinch” Sulzberger may well have been involved in the story and know the identity of the sources...they too could be subpoenaed and compelled to testify or else endure jail time.

Oh, that is TOO sweet.

Look for 'Punch' to fold once they pry him out of his nicely-appointed posh offices and send him somewhere where the water is (gasp) not bottled.

[Publius6961]

Finally, it is also possible that the disclosure of any details about the search and scan strategies and the algorithms used to sift through them would immediately allow countermeasures by our enemies to evade or defeat them.

D'OH!

Maybe we've all been wrong about the true nature of the Constitution. It is a suicide pact! Those clever Founding Fathers!

[G.Mason]

bump

[Publius6961]

This, in fact, was the reason why the agency had not sought a warrant to view the contents of Moussaoui’s computer, a search which as we now know might have prevented 9/11. Indeed, the Joint Senate and House Intelligence Committee report detailed just that.

The most frustrating thing about being an ordinary citizen with no control whatsoever over foreign threats, is the inability to learn the name of the person or persons responsible.

Stupidity is too kind a term. Criminal incompetence is more appropriate.
As far as I know, here over 4 years later, no specific names have been presented.

[Alia]

(per Byron York) Markos Moulitsas obviously knows his party hasn't done too well on this issue (has in fact "blown it") and therefore Moulitsas goes for the "gender" button -- hoping, I guess, to activate the radical fem-bot wing of the Democrat party into attack-dog mode, obviously, since Moulitsas himself has only his pen to defend himself and his party...

lol. A sad moment in Democrat Party history, IME. Moulitsas is drawing upon Patrick Henry! Or is he thinking (gender/history revisionism) Patricia Henry?

[massgopguy]

Carnivore's backbone is Dragonnet speech recognition systems which is owned by Nuance, a Massachusetts company. So the NSA has created more jobs in MA than both out idiot senators.

[Matchett-PI]

"The New York Times" is not some monolithic faceless alien oracle.

It is run by this man Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and his cadre of socialist crook propagandists from NYC's 42nd st.

Sulzberger is an enemy of the state and should be surveilled and brought up on charges of sedition.

2 posted on 12/26/2005 10:51:52 AM EST by Rome2000

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Nameless sources are too important to be left behind in today's journalism. Besides, they're taught in "Selective Reporting 101" in J school...

[Mariner]

Dead on...

[KC_Conspirator]

Its amazing the lies asserted by the media.

[Publius6961]

Lucy Dalglish, executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, expressed outrage at the Justice Department investigation into who leaked classified information to The New York Times about the Bush administration’s controversial domestic spying program, saying it is even more serious than the Valerie Plame probe.

It might be very useful to look into the record for previous statements by this particular rat having the light shined on her.
I have a very strong suspicion that if she's not a regular contributor to the People's Daily Worker, her statements have always been consistently indistinguishable from one.