Has any other leadership in the world been more Orwellian than the Bush administrations? Declaring War as Peace and Lies as Truth and now this . . . it's almost as though they are having a big joke in Washington to see if they can actually bring to fruition the dreaded regime of the novel 1984.
I like this contradiction in today's Reuters article:
Defending the controversial program, President Bush and his administration officials have said it aims to uncover links between international terrorists and their domestic collaborators and only targets communications between a person inside the United States and a person overseas.
Since the primary terrorists on this planet are the Saudi Royal Family, the Saudi government, and their allied families in Saudi Arabia (the binLadens included), Henry Kissinger and his partners, and the Bush family and their partners, I think the data collected should be limited to those people. One only need monitor the calls between Halliburton and the Bush family, Halliburton and Prescott, Saudi officials and White House officials, Henry Kissinger and oil importers, Houston and Riyadh, the binLaden family and Kissinger's firm to know where the problem lies.
No American family has done more to foster anti-American sentiment than the Bush family. No American family is more aligned with Saudi terrorists, their supporters and families than the Bush family.
When will Americans stand-up and demand that Bush, Kissinger and the rest of the Saudi apologists be held accountable for their complicity?
Well, never I suspect.
NSA kept domestic calls data: report
(Reuters) The agency in charge of a domestic spying program has been secretly collecting phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, including calls made within the United States, USA Today reported on Thursday.
It said the National Security Agency has been building up the database using records provided by three major phone companies -- AT&T Inc., Verizon Communications Inc. and BellSouth Corp. -- but that the program "does not involve the NSA listening to or recording conversations."
USA Today said its sources for the story were "people with direct knowledge of the arrangement," but it did not give their names or describe their affiliation.
The existence of an NSA eavesdropping program launched after the September 11 attacks was revealed in December.
Defending the controversial program, President Bush and his administration officials have said it aims to uncover links between international terrorists and their domestic collaborators and only targets communications between a person inside the United States and a person overseas.
But USA Today said that calls originating and terminating within the United States have not escaped the NSA's attention.
"It's the largest database ever assembled in the world," the paper quoted one source as saying. The agency's goal is "to create a database of every call ever made" within U.S. borders, it said the source added.
The NSA has "access to records of billions of domestic calls," USA Today said. Although customers' names and addresses are not being handed over, "the phone numbers the NSA collects can easily be cross-checked with other databases to obtain that information," it said.
Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden, who headed the NSA from 1999 to 2005 and was nominated by Bush on Monday as director of the CIA, would have overseen the call-tracking program, the paper said.
Hayden, as well as NSA and White House officials, declined to discuss the program, USA Today said.
Among major U.S. telecommunications companies, only Qwest Communications International Inc. has refused to help the NSA program, the paper said.
Qwest, with 14 million customers in the Western United States, was "uneasy about the legal implications of handing over customer information to the government without warrants," USA Today said.
It said the three companies cooperating with the NSA "provide local and wireless phone service to more than 200 million customers."
Big Brother
Words and music by David Bowie
Don't talk of dust and roses
Or should we powder our noses?
Don't live for last year's capers
Give me steel, give me steel, give me pulsars unreal
He'll build a glass asylum
With just a hint of mayhem
He'll build a better whirlpool
We'll be living from sin, then we can really begin
Please savior, saviour, show us
Hear me, I'm graphically yours
CHORUS
Someone to claim us, someone to follow
Someone to shame us, some brave Apollo
Someone to fool us, someone like you
We want you Big Brother, Big Brother
I know you think you're awful square
But you made everyone and you've been every where
Lord, I'd take an overdose if you knew what's going down
CHORUS (3 times)
We want you Big Brother
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House of Bush, House of Saud
Craig Unger
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