Thursday, May 11, 2006

No need for Congress, no need for courts


I don't see why members of Congress and the Federal Judiciary don't simply go home.

Furtherrmore, given the cost of living these days, why are we, the people, wasting our precious resources, which we need to pay for food, medicine, transportation and other life essentials, on their salaries?

Unclaimed Territory - by Glenn Greenwald: No need for Congress, no need for courts:

"I just this morning read the obviously significant USA Today article detailing the fact that the NSA is maintaining a comprehensive data base of every call made by every American 'both internationally and domestically' whether they have anything to do with terrorism or not, obviously all of this without warrants or oversight of any kind. I'm not going to pretend to have all of the legal issues figured out in two hours, and so I won't yet opine as to whether there are serious grounds for arguing either that this is legal or that it's illegal.

But there is one highly significant, and revealing, item buried in the USA Today article regarding Qwest's refusal to cooperate with the NSA's demands (and it heroic refusal to capitulate to the NSA's intimidation tactics and threats) that it turn over its customers' calling data:"

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