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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (296823)	7/25/2006 8:28:02 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572678

"Slight connections (whatever slight means) to terror suspects should not be ignored." Slight means no direct contact. Slight means, by the rules used, pretty much everyone who has used a phone in the US for a domestic or international call is a suspect. "Well, re. international calls that is true and always has been." It is true for domestic calls. "You can't wiretap US calls without a court order from a judge. " That isn't true any more. I guess you are a happy camper now. "Did Ben Franklin complain about George Washington reading Benedict Arnold's secret communications with the British?" Beats me. Of course, this isn't what is being addressed here. Ben certainly wouldn't have supported having people eavesdropping on every conversation of anyone who had ever spoken to a Brit. Or known someone who had. Or known someone who had known someone.... Nor would he have supported opening and reading of mail on the off chance that it might reveal something. Nor the examination of everyone's financial records, or tracking the books they check out(?) or what books they bought(?).