It’s Just The Numbers

7:05 pm EST May 11th, 2006 | Politics | 10 Comments

This argument that the NSA is just collecting phone numbers and golly gee they wouldn’t know what to do with that… is just ridiculous.

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10 Responses to “It’s Just The Numbers”

  1. JD says:
    May 11, 2006 at 10:05 pm

    Who owns your telephone records ?

  2. pgg2 says:
    May 11, 2006 at 10:05 pm

    Gosh, I remember in the days following 9/11, when the Dems and their media toads wailed about the government failing to, what was the phrase?

    Oh, yeah… CONNECT THE DOTS.

    Seems to me, if you’re expected to connect the dots, you better go out and collect some dots to connect, huh?

    Now, as those same media toads and Democrats go whining about the NSA looking at phone records. Nobody seems so worried about connecting the dots any longer.

    Why?

    Perhaps because, in 2001, it made Bush look bad then to point out his failings, but now in 2006, the effort has turned, with a vengeance, to making Bush look bad by highlighting his efforts to DO THE VERY THING HE WAS BEGGED TO DO IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!

    This is really very simple.

    When the political leadership of a nation can point to empirical and historical data that indicates that no matter what they do, they will be mercilessly attacked and criticized by the political opposition, what then is the motivation to do anything but precisely what they want to do?

    If you are truly damned if you do, and damned if you don’t, what difference does it make?

  3. frameone says:
    May 11, 2006 at 11:05 pm

    “Gosh, I remember in the days following 9/11, when the Dems and their media toads wailed about the government failing to, what was the phrase?”

    Gosh and I remember in the days following 9/11 when the Repubs wailed about how we had to get tough on terror and then blocked the FBI from accessing gun sale records for comparison with terrorist watch lists.
    http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2006_05_01_digbysblog_archive.html#114738766822525746

    Idiot hypocrites.

  4. midderpidge says:
    May 12, 2006 at 12:05 am

    A message for President Bush: put down the phone and go catch Osama bin Laden. I don’t think he’s hiding in a phone booth.

  5. Jon Swift says:
    May 12, 2006 at 12:05 am

    The NSA Code…

    The NSA contends that they are simply looking for “patterns” in the massive database of telephone numbers they have collected. In fact, the kinds of patterns NSA analysts are looking for may be the key to winning the War on Terror.
    …

  6. buma says:
    May 12, 2006 at 1:05 am

    Yep, pgg2 is on the right track. This is clearly the Democrats’ fault. Connecting tens of millions of dots is the way to go. So why not feel even safer and connect a few billion dots?

  7. buma says:
    May 12, 2006 at 1:05 am

    As I recall the dots bush was not connecting included some of those in that paper passed out by Harriet Miers at Crawford vacation headquarters. What was the name of that brief again, Condi?

  8. Frank_D says:
    May 12, 2006 at 6:05 am

    It’s really simple. They’ve even done it on Numbers

  9. buma says:
    May 12, 2006 at 1:05 pm

    http://www.defensetech.org/archives/002399.html
    Simple indeed. But is it effective?

  10. doug r says:
    May 13, 2006 at 10:05 am

    So if it’s unamerican to not be watched, I guess that makes the NSA unamerican?