Segodnya’s Comments

• Apr 1st, 2010 @ 11:58am

  Re: Re: incredible spending

  on Court Says President Bush Violated Wiretapping Laws With Warrantless Wiretap
  We never had a $5 trillion surplus. In fact, we have not had a surplus in this country in decades. President Clinton claimed to have established one, but his administration in fact counted the money in the so-called "Social Security Trust Fund" against the debt. It's sort of like telling the bank on your loan application that you have X in the bank, but failing to tell them that X is already pledged as collateral on some other loan.
• Apr 1st, 2010 @ 11:52am

  Re: Re: They do not need to wiretap anyone

  on Court Says President Bush Violated Wiretapping Laws With Warrantless Wiretap
  Your tinfoil hat will not stop the international resources. The resources are known as the UK-USA agreement and has to do with the establishment of a surveillance pact. Since 1952 the National Security Agency, its British counterpart (GCHQ) and the analogous services of New Zealand, Australia, Canada and various others have surreptitiously spied on ALL electronic communications. The legality of the program has been suspect all along; various US Attorneys General have refused to sanction what the NSA does because they know full well that the vacuum cleaner approach to electronic surveillance is ILLEGAL. Look up Project Minaret, Project Shamrock, and some of the other crap the NSA has been involved with over the years. The main reason it remains so highly classified is because they know it's ILLEGAL.
• Apr 1st, 2010 @ 11:33am

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  on Court Says President Bush Violated Wiretapping Laws With Warrantless Wiretap
  Nonsense. You proclaiming that there are two mutually exclusive options does not make it so. There are other choices in addition to those two, and one of them is that the government should follow its own laws. In this case, the FISA law provides a court for national security wiretaps, and that law even allows the government to start the wiretapping today in emergencies and then apply for the warrant tomorrow.