Re: [privacy] Echoes of Watergate in NSA Coutroom

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

The reason why I posted this -- aside from the sheer curiosity
factor -- is due to this paragraph:

[snip]

But there's some irony in the fact that it was AT&T to first
make the comparison in a federal courtroom here, while defending
itself from charges of complicity in Bush's warrantless spying.

[snip]

What exactly are you critisizing, or are you making noise simply
for the sake of making noise? :-)

- ferg


-- "StyleWar" <stylewar () cox net> wrote:
Oh lord. Just when I didn't think the world could get any more
creative, now
there seems to be a MIME plugin for bull$hit...

I've got a comparison too... Franklin Roosevelt was a Democrat, and his
chief advisor at Yalta was Alger Hiss. We now know that Alger was a
communist spy, and that the concessions at Yalta helped shape the cold war.

Bill Clinton, also a Democrat, took a trip to Moscow less than a year after
Russia crushed Czechoslovakia, and to this DAY he doesn't 'recall' what he
was there for or who he went to see...

You do the math.

-

StyleWar

"If everyone' thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking." 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fergie [mailto:fergdawg () netzero net] 
> Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 10:22 PM
> To: privacy () whitestar linuxbox org
> Subject: [privacy] Echoes of Watergate in NSA Coutroom
>
> Kevin Poulsen on Wired News:
>
> [snip]
>
> It was perhaps inevitable that someone would compare 
> President Bush's extrajudicial wiretapping operations to 
> Richard Nixon's 1970s-era surveillance of journalists and 
> political enemies. Both were carried out by Republican 
> presidents; both bypassed the courts; both relied on the 
> cooperation of U.S. telecommunications companies.
>
> But there's some irony in the fact that it was AT&T to first 
> make the comparison in a federal courtroom here, while 
> defending itself from charges of complicity in Bush's 
> warrantless spying.
>
> [snip]
>
> More here:
> http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71227-0.html
>
> - ferg


--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/

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