Re: Something we can all agree on

On 19 Dec 2005 12:49:25 -0800, Winfield Hill
<Winfield_member@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>zwsdotcom@xxxxxxxxx wrote...
>>
>> The thing that baffles me, however, is how anyone could believe
>> electronic communications to be private unless securely encrypted
>> (and by this I mean an end-to-end secure system including key
>> management, not merely a "secure" code used for the bulk channel).
>> Regardless of how this debacle plays out, you should assume that
>> any electronic communication channel is being monitored by _someone_.
>
> That's why I fear that Bush is using it more to monitor ordinary
> citizens who somehow fall on his radar screen, rather than "known
> terrorists" --- who would surely be using encrypted communication
> by now. When Bush says, "people with known links to Al-Qaeda and
> related terrorist organizations," I suspect that leaves a loophole
> big enough to drive a FEMA Katrina truck through. In the last few
> years many people with virtually no connection, or only remotely
> connected to things in the mideast, have been subjected to extreme
> US action, because they made a certain charitable donation, talked
> to someone, or did some other innocent activity. It appears these
> things qualify to Bush as "known links."
>
> Some have said he's simply intercepting the US side of an overseas
> conversation with an Al-Qaeda terrorist. If that was so, wouldn't
> Bush come out and say so, instead of hiding behind weasel words?

Get real. Think about how many people it would take to monitor any
other than the few suspects we're trying to keep track of.

...Jim Thompson
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