I was driving to work today thinking about dial-a-shots. I know, many of you out there were. Now I must admit that I'm no DaS regular. I have done two. One with Pauly and one with Otis, both on the night of the Little Willie Invitational ( I should add that one of those was a dial-a-hit for one of the parties). But then I started thinking about how many WPBT's call cross country and even inter-country to perform a DaS.
The NSA has those records. They also know all about those late night calls from NYC to Philly to LA and back to G-Vegas. They know that those same cell phones have been on the same network in Las Vegas several times.
How high on the NSA Al Queda watch list is this guy? I mean he has people from all over the world calling him at all hours of the day and night, and then at random times he jumps on a plane to go visit these people. He went to the Carribbean, Las Vegas, Los Angles, A.C. and Greenville. The DaS activity, intra and inter national calling records, cell phone records that merge onto the same network a couple of times a year, etc, etc... Doesn't that all sound like the type of activity that the NSA fishing expedition would scrutinize?
No I am not a conspiracy nut. But I do think that since September 11, 2001 we, free Americans, have turned a blind eye to the governement and its intrusion into our personal lives. I really believe that "the governement that governs best, governs least." I am for a smaller government, lower taxes and libertarian principles of freedom.
Lets just say that the CIA, FBI of NSA never actually scrutinized the Dial-a-Shot crowd, isn't knowing that they have the ability to know exactly how many DaS's Al had last year reason enough for outrage? I think it is. I am pissed.
As full disclosure I think I should add the following: I am a registered Republican and I voted for W. (really I voted against Gore and Kerry). I want lower taxes AND smaller government, not lower taxes and BIGGER government. In addition, the chickens are coming home to roost on the war as well. This summer I will have 3 cousins deployed in the US military, One in Iraq, one in Afghanistan and one yet to be determined.
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5 comments:
If there was an attack and we weren't doing this, the howls of contempt would be louder than we could bear.
And just so we're clear... there are no names attached to the numbers they are gathering. They are looking for patterns that may indicate how al Qaida is communicating.
Finally, the U.S. Supremem Court ruled there is no expectation of privacy for the phone numbers you dial.
Sometimes I wonder why people aren't more outraged that these leakers are constantly telling the terrorists how we're trying to stop the next attack.
Good lord. Since you put it that way, I'm kind of afraid of myself now.
There are no names attached? Yeah, because a reverse phone directory would be soooo hard to attach to the database. There are CURRENTLY no names attached. But it is a simple matter of merging databases, nothing more. A few keystrokes.
If I committed a felony the police would still need a warrant to get my phone records. There is no expectation to privacy, but there is an expecation to just cause before a search or seizure.
The NSA has the key and the lock. Unfortunatly the guard has been rendered impotent and the can open the door anytime they wish.
You are right, another attack will bring howls of contempt. But don't forget that the data to stop 9/11 had been assembled and was mis/un/not/fumble communicated. We had the intelligence, not the means to use it. Gather even more intelligence by spying on citizens is not the answer, effectively tracking and communicating what we already have is.
You really think that Al Queda is simply picking up the phone? If there are no names then how exactly does the Dial-a-Shot scenario differ from the patterns of terrorists?
2006 is the new 1984.
"That they can give up essential freedom for a little temporary saftey deserve neither freedom nor saftey."-Benjamin Franklin
When are you go going to get back to coaching?
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As if you can't Google half the phone numbers already. These is nothing new going on here, the phone companies have had our records for years.
The government (especially ours) is not sinister, they're just dumb sometimes.
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