Amazing. Just heard Bush's curt and arrogant statement on the subject. Refused questions, of course.
I would've thought that I'd lost the capacity to be offended by insults to my intelligence like that, but Bush seems to have a gift for finding new ways to raise the bar.
There is nothing else you can do with a huge pile of raw data like this, other than troll through it and mine it for information. The records of individual calls are virtually worthless. It's the patterns mined from the data that provide inferences, and those inferences would have to lead to wiretaps and other further investigation, or the data collection is pointless. Since the mining provides only suggestions of connections, a program like this necessarily will result in a large number of false positives and a large number of unjustified wiretaps.
"The privacy of Americans is fiercely protected" Bush said? Gimme a break.
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"We're not mining or trolling"
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- The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans
- Here is something interesting - good or bad?
- re: The New York Times article from last December
- HIgh crimes and misdemeanors
- Brace for spin
- Tens of millions of Americans?