USA Today editorial: NSA has your phone records

[pberq]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2006-05-11-phone-records_x.htm

NSA has your phone records; 'trust us' isn't good enough

Posted 5/11/2006 10:55 PM ET

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The government is secretly collecting the phone records of millions of Americans.

Stop and think for a moment about the meaning of that simple, startling fact, exposed Thursday in a remarkable report by USA TODAY's Leslie Cauley.

In the narrowest interpretation, of course, it is benign. Possibly even helpful. It means that the National Security Agency (NSA) — the Pentagon-run spy agency that monitors communications — is using a new tool to hunt terrorists: Monitor phone traffic to identify threats and stop them.

This is all it means, President Bush told the public Thursday in a brief appearance aimed at quelling the instant outrage provoked by the story. He assured Americans that their civil liberties were being "fiercely protected" and that the government was "not mining or trolling through the personal lives of millions of innocent Americans."

(more at link . . .)

In other words, never mind appearances. Trust us.

Well, that is not all it means. Nor can the president's promise to protect privacy be reliably kept.

[fooj]

1. He HAS NO credibility.

Nobody in their right mind should believe a word these lying, treasonous rat bastards are saying.

[sarcasmo]

2. I ask again, who are the cell phone companies that didn't give

in to these Fascists.