Why They Broke the Law
The recently revealed criminal acts committed by the Bush administration have created some tortured reasoning from the perpetrators for why they needed to circumvent the law. Unfortunately for the law breakers, their justifications have nothing to do with the reality of what has transpired.
Citing the need to “move fast” they argue that even though it's not necessary to obtain FISA court warrants – that is not fast enough. How this makes any sense is just baffling, yet they use it as justification. The FISA statute allows for emergency monitoring, only requiring a warrant be filed for within 72 hours of the initiation of electronic monitoring. So, if the time required for a warrant is not germane, why didn't they follow the law?
The reason is quite simple. Electronic technology has far outstripped the FISA law as written in 1978. The Bushies were not monitoring small numbers of communications – they were data mining. All forms of all electronic communications were being monitored. Every email sent over the Internet, every cell phone conversation, every fax transmission - all were being monitored. They use special software programs to automatically filter the sea of information, looking for key word phrases or names, using voice recognition programs, and determining key locations of cellular phone usage. Once these are discovered, they then separate the discovered information for further analysis. This analyzed data is what may be submitted to the FISA court for warrants.
The problem is who determines what data is to be analyzed? Submission of all communications to data mining means we are all judged guilty before any probable cause is determined. Does anyone really trust this administration to treat all Americans equally? It is not beyond this fascist cabals' capability - or their mentality to be targeting Democrats, gays, secularists, Muslims, Jews, gun control advocates, peace protesters, abortion rights advocates, environmentalists – in short anyone who doesn't think like they do. Bush has violated the same American rights Richard Nixon did – and Nixon resigned to avoid being impeached.
This group of neocon goons and their cavalier attitude towards our Constitution is extremely dangerous. Our freedoms are under attack.
Posted on The Human Stain
Citing the need to “move fast” they argue that even though it's not necessary to obtain FISA court warrants – that is not fast enough. How this makes any sense is just baffling, yet they use it as justification. The FISA statute allows for emergency monitoring, only requiring a warrant be filed for within 72 hours of the initiation of electronic monitoring. So, if the time required for a warrant is not germane, why didn't they follow the law?
The reason is quite simple. Electronic technology has far outstripped the FISA law as written in 1978. The Bushies were not monitoring small numbers of communications – they were data mining. All forms of all electronic communications were being monitored. Every email sent over the Internet, every cell phone conversation, every fax transmission - all were being monitored. They use special software programs to automatically filter the sea of information, looking for key word phrases or names, using voice recognition programs, and determining key locations of cellular phone usage. Once these are discovered, they then separate the discovered information for further analysis. This analyzed data is what may be submitted to the FISA court for warrants.
The problem is who determines what data is to be analyzed? Submission of all communications to data mining means we are all judged guilty before any probable cause is determined. Does anyone really trust this administration to treat all Americans equally? It is not beyond this fascist cabals' capability - or their mentality to be targeting Democrats, gays, secularists, Muslims, Jews, gun control advocates, peace protesters, abortion rights advocates, environmentalists – in short anyone who doesn't think like they do. Bush has violated the same American rights Richard Nixon did – and Nixon resigned to avoid being impeached.
This group of neocon goons and their cavalier attitude towards our Constitution is extremely dangerous. Our freedoms are under attack.
Posted on The Human Stain
posted by James Roberts at
12/20/2005 05:07:00 PM
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