Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 1824
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@ Ondolette
[Read the article: The leak designed to save Alberto Gonzales]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Both the items you highlighted Arne are not in the new version, for obvious reasons.
Yeah, I know. But thanks for making that clear.
I can live with axing the geographic restriction [50 USC ยง 1801(f)(2)], but the one making call data fair game w/o a court order I disagree with strongly (in part because of the real blurring of "content" and "data" (such as "dialed digit extraction" being called "data" in the latest CALEA regs).
Cheers,
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@ Seixon
[Read the article: The leak designed to save Alberto Gonzales]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Just one response to paint Seixon in the right light, then I'm through, and Seixon will be left to his own fate.
[Seixon]: Point out a single lie I have told. K, thanks....
See below.
... I already pointed out Glenn lying, even using his own words against him. What you got, other than your head up Glenn's you know what?
[Arne]: "Just a word to the wise: Calling Glenn a liar won't make you very welcome."
[Seixon]: Oh. No. I better get in line and not question Emperor Greenwald the Sock-Puppet....
There's one.
[Seixon]: ... Or was that a threat that I'd be banned for pointing out the obvious, that Greenwald is a lying hack?
I don't issue threats. I just tell it like it is.
[Seixon]: Greenwald claimed that the data-mining program was not widely discussed....
Where? I read the post again, and I didn't see anything like that. Not to mention, as others have pointed out, that was hardly what Glenn was talking about, and certainly not his point.
[Seixon]: ... Can you honestly say that this is true, even when Glenn himself was discussing this very program over a year ago, along with the New York Times and every other media outlet?
See above. You really are an eedjit, aren't you?
[Seixon]: Can you? Did Hayden deny data-mining, or can you comprehend English and see Hayden's testimony that he was saying that the data-mining was limited and focused?
[Hayden]: Let me talk for a few minutes also about what this program is not. It is not a driftnet over Dearborn or Lackawanna or Freemont grabbing conversations that we then sort out by these alleged keyword searches or data-mining tools or other devices that so-called experts keep talking about.
I can read English. You apparently can't. Not to mention I think I have a lot more experience and expertise in the technology than you, and understand what "data mining" is.
[Seixon]: Do you believe Greenwald or your lying eyes? Your choice.
I believe my eyes. The one whose eyes are lying here is you.
Don't let the door slam your a$$ on the way out, Seixon.
Cheers,
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@ ConnieL
[Read the article: The really smart, serious, credible Iraq experts O'Hanlon and Pollack]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Salon has a terrific staff. Glenn Greenwald should be considered the Edward Murrow scholar. I have written through the years that I think Salon.com is one of the best online sites but with the help of Greenwald it is fast becoming the best online site. Bravo to Salon and thanks to Glenn Greenwald for your excellence in investigating reporting.
Salon is also the debut vehicle for Tom Tomorrow's "This Modern World" nowadays, another fine feature deliciously subversive.
On the flip side, why they keep Paglia around boggles my mind....
Cheersm
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@ Ondolette
[Read the article: The leak designed to save Alberto Gonzales]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That's the whole problem in a nutshell -- everybody can live with the idea that a transmission between two foreign persons that happens to route through the U.S. can be considered foreign. They are hyping that one case to justify driving an eighteen wheeler through the door once they get it opened.
The language change for 1801(f)(2):
"(2) the intentional acquisition of the contents of any communication under circumstances in which a person has a reasonable expectation of privacy and a warrant would be required for law enforcement purposes, if both the sender and all intended recipients are reasonably believed to be located within the United States."
which is a lot broader than just fixing the routing problem. It allows any communication that might have recipients abroad to be looked at without a warrant, and "without the consent of any party thereto" to be reduced to "has a reasonable expectation of privacy".
It's not a 'rewrite'. It's an entirely different provision substituted in place -- although arguably the new subparagraph (2) substitutes for the non-wireline (read: "cellular phones"?!?!?) provisions in subparagraph (3). The original had to do with the locus of interception (in the case of wire communications to or from a person in the United States, but not requiring that person be targeted). The replacement subparagraphs (1) and (2) are in fact a pruning back on what is covered by FISA to two sections, both of which, FWIW, are conditioned on "intentional[]" acquisition or surveillance. Does this leave broad snoops not targeting anyone "in particular" out of the ambit of FISA entirely? Maybe so....
I'll try to do a "side-by-side" with some analysis this week on my blog, if I get the time.
Cheers,
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OT: True heroes
[Read the article: A new low of mindlessness for our media]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I nominated Glenn for a "CNN Heroes" award:
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2007/cnn.heroes/nom/
Others of like mind might want to do the same.
Glenn: Ignore this; don't want you weighing in in any way; leave it to the readers to decide what's appropriate....
Cheers,
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A song in his heart....
[Read the article: A new low of mindlessness for our media]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Seaberry: America is winning in Iraq, and the actual offensive portion of the surge only just recently started....
"We've only just begun to live,
White lace and promises
A kiss for luck and we're on our way.
And yes, We've just begun."Before the rising sun we fly,
So many roads to choose
We start our walking and learn to run.
And yes, We've just begun...."Cheers,