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To: mistermj who wrote (178090)	12/17/2005 3:17:33 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 281500

The people tapped weren't "known terrorists"! We don't know WHO they were. This has been going on SINCE 9/11, and is probably STILL going on.

To: mistermj who wrote (178090)	12/17/2005 3:18:57 PM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 281500

How do you know you idiot that the wiretapping was for known terrorists? You DON'T KNOW. In fact you know nothing. Bush could be wiretapping your own phone right now and you won't even have a clue. Or he could be wiretapping his political rivals. Listen idiot. Bush is just a president not a freaking king or dictator. And in this country, when one acts like one, he should be arrested tried and thrown in jail.

To: mistermj who wrote (178090)	12/17/2005 3:29:14 PM
From: mistermj	Respond to of 281500

From the NY Times: 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.