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December 24, 2005
Taking Risks to Preserve U.S. Civil Liberties
Apparently there are persons in the U.S. intelligence community willing to take career-ending risks to expose the Bush Administration's domestic spying operations by revealing even more of its un-American activities in the name of national security. As Diplomatic Times Review readers probably know by now, New York Times reporters Eric Lichtblau and James Risen reported December 24, 2005, that:The National Security Agency has traced and analyzed large volumes of telephone and Internet communications flowing into and out of the U.S. as part of the eavesdropping program that President Bush approved after the Sept. 11 attacks to hunt for evidence of terrorist activity, according to current and former government officials.
I found the following especially interesting:As part of the program approved by Bush for domestic surveillance without warrants, the NSA has gained the cooperation of U.S. telecommunications companies to obtain back-door access to streams of domestic and international communications, the officials said.
It reminds of me of how easily back-doors can be inserted into our personal and institutional computers.
Note: This article is cross posted at The Opinion Gazette
Posted by Munir Umrani at December 24, 2005 01:02 PM
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