Useful idiots use lawsuits to inform enemy of spying

Washington Post:

In 2003, Room 641A of a large telecommunications building in downtown San Francisco was filled with powerful data-mining equipment for a "special job" by the National Security Agency, according to a former AT&T technician. It was fed by fiber-optic cables that siphoned copies of e-mails and other online traffic from one of the largest Internet hubs in the United States, the former employee says in court filings.

What occurred in the room is now at the center of a pivotal legal battle in a federal appeals court over the Bush administration's controversial spying program, including the monitoring that came to be publicly known as the Terrorist Surveillance Program.

Tomorrow, a three-judge panel will hear arguments on whether the case, which may provide the clearest indication yet of how the spying program has worked, can go forward. So far, evidence in the case suggests a massive effort by the NSA to tap into the backbone of the Internet to retrieve millions of e-mails and other communications, which the government could sift and analyze for suspicious patterns or other signs of terrorist activity, according to court records, plaintiffs' attorneys and technology experts.

"The scale of these deployments is . . . vastly in excess of what would be needed for any likely application or any likely combination of applications, other than surveillance," says an affidavit filed by J. Scott Marcus, the senior Internet adviser at the Federal Communications Commission from 2001 to 2005. Marcus analyzed evidence for the plaintiffs in the case.

In the first of two lawsuits before the court, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a privacy group, alleges in a class action that AT&T collaborated with the NSA to operate a "dragnet" that illegally tracked the domestic and foreign communications of millions of Americans. The second case centers on the disbanded al-Haramain charity and two of its attorneys, who say they were given -- and then forced to return -- a Treasury Department document showing that they had been the focus of NSA surveillance.

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You just knew that when liberals said 9-11 changed everything they did not really mean it. They would revert to form when they felt safe enough to do so and start working to undermine our national security and helping the enemy find out how we are using intelligence resources to stop their next attack. This is done on the specious basis that the administration is interested in what non terrorist are saying in "private." It assumes that they are not already overwhelmed by dots of real terrorist conversations that they are trying to connect to begin with.

When they rehashed the dots of pre 9-11 intercepts of enemy communications that were not put together they never seem to make the connection that they were not connected because there was an overwhelming amount of material. When you expand the data base, you have to have some data mining ability to sift through the irrelevant to pull some potentially relevant data to see if it is worth connecting. What the useful idiots are trying to do is keep us from getting to that point by arguing that the electronic sifting is some kind of violation of their "privacy." In a time of war this is just perverse.

It is cases like these that prove that liberals are a clear and present danger to the national security of this country and if they happen to get in front of a liberal judge it is avolitile combination that could get a lot of Americans killed.