{"id":1224,"date":"2006-01-04T11:26:04","date_gmt":"2006-01-04T15:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=1224"},"modified":"2006-01-04T11:26:04","modified_gmt":"2006-01-04T15:26:04","slug":"selective-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1224","title":{"rendered":"Selective hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amygdala is Blue in the Face<\/a> that people are still using the term “wiretapping” when discussing what he calls “the NSA multiplex data-mining pattern analysis\/switch-compromising\/FISA story,” and:<\/p>\n

As I’ve said elsewhere, many many many times now, in varying words, since December 20th, in answer to the endless mantra of “but why couldn’t they just get FISA warrants?”: bottom line: if you’re doing a multiplexdata-mining pattern analysis on tens of thousands or more people, shifting by possibly tens of thousands of people per day, or more, you can’t get warrants. It’s not humanly possible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

New York Times<\/em> reporter James Risen told Andrea Mitchell this<\/a> via<\/em> (War and Piece<\/a>):<\/p>\n

Mitchell: Is the president correct when he tells the American people that the NSA was only intercepting “a few numbers?”<\/p>\n

Risen: Well, what we’ve been told is that they were eavesdropping on roughly 500 people in the United States every day over the past three or four years. That adds up to potentially thousands of people, and so because this program has been so classified, it’s difficult to determine exactly who they were listening to. It started out relatively small, going after numbers they had taken from captured al-Qaida prisoners and then expanded out in kind of a large data mining operation. What they got was access to main telecommunication switches that go in and out of the United States, which carry huge volumes of telecommunication traffic. And that, in effect, gave them access to the main bulk of communications in and out of the United States. So without oversight, it’s difficult to tell how many people and to what degree they were really listening to people.<\/p>\n

Mitchell: Once they got access through agreement from the telecommunications companies, correct? Once the companies gave them access, they were able, by using super computers, to pull up potentially threatening calls or interesting calls or possible leads? <\/p>\n

Risen: Well, they were doing data mining. They were going thru the entire system looking for patterns of phone numbers and other information. So, there was both the actual eavesdropping on some numbers and a more sophisticated pattern analysis. It’s difficult to tell how those two things worked together, but all of this was being done without search warrants which in the past had always been required.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And former NSA intelligence agent Russell Tice, fired from the agency in May 2005 in what he calls a retaliatory action for criticising the competency of the FBI, essentially told Amy Goodman the same on Democracy NOW!<\/a> yesterday. He provided Bush an “if” in wiggle room saying he may not have known the programme had advanced to data mining, but isn’t that saying he did authourise the warrantless spying on specific individuals? <\/p>\n

If Tice’s request to address Congress is approved perhaps more will be revealed, but considering how whistleblowers like Tice and Sibel Edmonds<\/a> have been treated<\/a> by this gov’t what are the odds?<\/p>\n

Excerpted from Romesh Ratnesarr’s The Book Behind the Bombshell<\/em> [ 3 January 2006<\/a> TIME Magazine<\/em> ], a review of James Risen?s book, State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Risen devotes a chapter to Sawsan Alhaddad, an Iraqi American recruited by the CIA as part of a “Hail Mary” prewar effort to gain intelligence on Saddam Hussein’s weapons program by tapping the relatives of Iraqi scientists. Alhaddad was one of at least 30 Iraqi expatriates who risked their lives to travel to Iraq to ask their relatives about Saddam’s arsenal. According to Risen, all of them reported that Iraq had abandoned its WMD program–but the CIA never informed the White House.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Bush administration decides what will and will not be heard and those who disagree are designated enemies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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