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Hello everyone. The following LTTE is in today's (August 7) Boston Globe. The author is a former AT&T researcher who holds a number of patents for call management systems. It's quite chilling:
"The unintended consequences of the expansion of the FISA act of 1978 will be legalization of wiretapping of any and all Americans and businesses in this country. Although President Bush says that revising FISA would expand governmental powers to eavesdrop on suspected foreign terrorists, there is no technology nor science that identifies any suspicious communication without scanning ALL communications. (emphasis mine)
The simple truth is that terrorists or anyone planning a terrorist act will use unknown and anonymous telephone routing numbers. As an expert in telephone routing and tracking systems, I can assure you that there is no way on this earth to identify such calls unless you are listening in on all calls.
Thus, in passing the Protect America Act of 2007, which the president signed into law, Congress has authorized the clandestine wiretapping of all Americans and all calls and communications to and from anywhere, whether private or commercial.
Most troubling is that the primary reason for limiting judicial review is that such oversight would determine that any implementation of this legislation requires targeting all Americans.
Given this administration's record on leveling with the American public, the consequences of this measure might not be unintended at all." - Daniel E. Speers, Haverhill
I read this over breakfast - I can feel my stomach churning.
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