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To: sylvester80 who wrote (178074)	12/17/2005 11:07:38 AM
From: mistermj	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Explain the problem you have with this sylvester...I rather doubt your dear old grandma was on this list. Are you saying after 9/11 we shouldn't have tried to find out if more terrorists were planning attacks inside the U.S.? They were going after phone calls connected to overseas areas of interest and known Al Qada..."in country" calls still needed a warrant. Whats the big deal here? Are you saying not to take steps to protect yourself after being attacked? Is that really what you are saying? From the NYTimes What the agency calls a "special collection program" began soon after the Sept. 11 attacks, as it looked for new tools to attack terrorism. The program accelerated in early 2002 after the Central Intelligence Agency started capturing top Qaeda operatives overseas, including Abu Zubaydah, who was arrested in Pakistan in March 2002. The C.I.A. seized the terrorists' computers, cellphones and personal phone directories, said the officials familiar with the program. The N.S.A. surveillance was intended to exploit those numbers and addresses as quickly as possible, they said. In addition to eavesdropping on those numbers and reading e-mail messages to and from the Qaeda figures, the N.S.A. began monitoring others linked to them, creating an expanding chain. While most of the numbers and addresses were overseas, hundreds were in the United States, the officials said. Since 2002, the agency has been conducting some warrantless eavesdropping on people in the United States who are linked, even if indirectly, to suspected terrorists through the chain of phone numbers and e-mail addresses, according to several officials who know of the operation. Under the special program, the agency monitors their international communications, the officials said. The agency, for example, can target phone calls from someone in New York to someone in Afghanistan. The report goes on to explain that a warrant is necessary to monitor a phone call from someone in New York to, say, someone in California.