While everyone was paying attention to George W. Bush’s plan to send the military to the border, Brian Ross and Richard Esposito of ABC News have busted out of a cone of silence with the following news:
A senior federal law enforcement official tells ABC News the government is tracking the phone numbers we (Brian Ross and Richard Esposito) call in an effort to root out confidential sources.
“It’s time for you to get some new cell phones, quick,” the source told us in an in-person conversation.
ABC News does not know how the government determined who we are calling, or whether our phone records were provided to the government as part of the recently-disclosed NSA collection of domestic phone calls.
…Under Bush Administration guidelines, it is not considered illegal for the government to keep track of numbers dialed by phone customers.
Gosh. Those reporters at ABC News must be members of Al Qaeda, because we know that Bush administration phone tracking is only used to track down the terrorists. They’d never use their power for political purposes, now would they? Just trust the Bush administration. They all know exactly what they’re doing.
found this depressing tidbit in the blogosphere:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1630900/posts
Well, first of all, that’s not related to this topic, so I don’t see why you’re writing about that here. Second of all, you can see here that U.S. code specifies the conditions under which requests must occur, including a specification by the government that requests are not based solely on the speech activity of individuals.
The sooner we kick these criminals out of the White House, the sooner we can begin the long road back to the America we had 6 years ago and make some progress on our damaged foreign and domestic policies, get the corporations out of Washington (this will take some doing), and try to repair the HUGE deficit Bush has saddled us with.
Turns out Nader was right (like Perot before him).
I am sick and tired of these people in government abusing their position to look into my life. If they’re doing this to a powerful journalistic group, you just know they’re doing it to the rest of us.