An Easy Call: Lying (Wash Post)

[stevedeshazer]

At least now we know that the Bush administration's name for spying on Americans without first seeking court approval -- the "terrorist surveillance program" -- isn't an exercise in Orwellian doublespeak after all. It's just a bald-faced lie.

Oh, and at least now the Senate will have a few questions to ask Gen. Michael V. Hayden, the man George W. Bush just named to head the CIA, at his confirmation hearings.

While Hayden was running the super-secret National Security Agency, according to a report yesterday in USA Today, the NSA began collecting comprehensive records of telephone calls made by "tens of millions of Americans." If your service is provided by AT&T, Verizon or BellSouth, according to the newspaper, this means your phone calls -- all the calls you've made since late 2001. Of the major phone companies, only Qwest reportedly declined to cooperate.

The allegation, which the president refused to confirm or deny, is not that the spooks are actually listening in as you call home to check on the kids or talk to the bank about refinancing your mortgage. Rather, the idea is to be able to look at a given phone number -- yours, let's say -- and see all the other numbers that you called or that called you over a given period.

...more... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/11/AR2006051101877.html

[babylonsister]

1. Woah! Poopey hittin' fan! nt

[wordpix2]

2. as usual, * appoints criminals to top jobs & now we get Hayden at CIA to

keep on doing BushCo's bidding that he's proven to do so well. CAn't wait for this confirmation hearing to begin. :bounce: :evilgrin:

[anitar1]

3. Gratified that someone has finally used the word LIE.

I have been so frustrated through the last few years, that anyone in the MSM was afraid to say LIAR. The SOB's have lied all along and gotten away with it.I have no respect for Feinstien and haven't for years. She is another cancer in our government, along with quite a few others. If we love our country we will start winnowing all of these people out of their positions if we can take charge of the Congress. I pray that it is not too late.Who needs enemies like Feinstein and her ilk?

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

4. This is an op-ed piece. I'm waiting for LIE to be on the front page

That's when I'll get excited.

[struggle4progress]

5. Let's see a bunch of civil suits against AT&T, Verizon, and BellSouth