Domestic spying: Follow the $$?
by bornadem
Sun Dec 18, 2005 at 12:19:49 PM PDT
For what it's worth, here's my mull. There's no way that this was done for security reasons. First of all, we don't have enough translators to translate all of these communications. For heavens sake, we don't have enough to translate the legally obtained intercepts.
Secondly, obtaining a warrant from the special, secret court takes less than a day. The NSA can also obtain a warrant after the intercepting has begun, in exigent circumstances. So, any vaguely legitimate reason is easy to make legal by obtaining a warrant. Without a warrant, anything obtained is inadmissable in a prosecution.
This leads to my thought that this surveillance was not related to the prosecution of the war on terrah. I'm old enough to remember Nixon, and the advice of Deep Throat to follow the money.
My hunch is that this was being used to spy on Democratic contributors. Hastert's goofy remarks about Soros are a tip-off, but my gut feeling is that this is the direction the spying went.
Secondly, obtaining a warrant from the special, secret court takes less than a day. The NSA can also obtain a warrant after the intercepting has begun, in exigent circumstances. So, any vaguely legitimate reason is easy to make legal by obtaining a warrant. Without a warrant, anything obtained is inadmissable in a prosecution.
This leads to my thought that this surveillance was not related to the prosecution of the war on terrah. I'm old enough to remember Nixon, and the advice of Deep Throat to follow the money.
My hunch is that this was being used to spy on Democratic contributors. Hastert's goofy remarks about Soros are a tip-off, but my gut feeling is that this is the direction the spying went.
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