Comments on: NSA: How They Spy

By: jtw

jtw — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 02:26:52 +0000

THe President is supposed to protect against all enemies foreign and domestic within the Constitution.
Even if there was a law that said he could issue warrantless wiretaps on US Citizens, regardless if it was Usama himself. That law would be unconstitutional.
And there was no law. There was a law that said he can conduct warrantless communications on foreign communications that US Citizens werent a party to. AND he could of conducted warrantless eavesdrops up until 15 days after war had been declared(Although this law is unconstitutional).
His oath does’nt undermine the Constitution.
He has no integrity to the Constitution and the President should be put on trial and impeached.

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 15:02:20 +0000

Sarge
Really.….….…… where is your evidence that the federal government without a warrant is spying on any of those organizations. Congress has been consulted by the president on these warrantless searches (however, that is not required by the constitution) and I am sure if they or any non terrorist group was being spied on those loose lips in congress would be blathering directly to CNN. Go back and read it one more time the president is to protect against all enemies foriegn and domestic.
Are you sure that PETA is not a terrorist organization?
The USS Jimmy Carter will be eavesdropping on international calls in the deep ocean not swimming up the Mississippi River to find out what time your kids soccer game is.

By: Sarge

Sarge — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 23:56:53 +0000

Does anybody think it is just a hoot that the submarine USS Jimmy Carter is being re-tooled to be a high tech eavesdropping machine. Especially after his remarks yesterday.
Posted by: Bill at February 8, 2006 02:10 PM
No, I think it’s another sign of the decline of America.
I also think your response is another sign of America’s decline.
You either stand by the constitution, or you stand by your party affiliation.
As in “I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; …“
Or as the president says (hand on bible), “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.“
If you want to spy on foreign enemies, fine.
But if you warrantlessly spy on citizens, your political opposition, Quakers, PETA etc., you’ve crossed a line.
If you can’t see that, you’re part of the problem.

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 20:55:01 +0000

Putting the cable underseas doesn’t stop someone from tapping it. Ask the USN — which Sturgeon class sub was it that was tasked w/ going into the Sea of Ohktosk (probably butchered that spelling) to tap the Sov lines from Kamchatka back to the mainland?
This is a capability that the USN still realizes the need for. One of the new ‘Virginia-class’ sub’s was redesigned while under construction to handle covert missions — and prob the ability to tap undersea fiber was high on that mission list.

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 19:10:28 +0000

Does anybody think it is just a hoot that the submarine USS Jimmy Carter is being re-tooled to be a high tech eavesdropping machine. Especially after his remarks yesterday.

By: Charles

Charles — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 18:19:32 +0000

Most of the world’s infrastructure goes through the US. There’s also the fiberoptic infrastructure built by Global Crossing before they went bankrupt-unless anyone else has a few billions to build their own infrastructure which /won’t/ get tapped. In the future we won’t have the luxury of building taps into all the nodes, and will have to “haxor” into them instead.