It turns out that the NSA, having found listening in on Arabic phone calls entirely too complicated (why can't they speak English?), has instead focused on Americans. Not just your overseas calls anymore. Now they want the phone records of every call made by every American. If you're a customer of AT&T, Verizon, or BellSouth, good news -- you've already complied!
More good news: the nominee to replace Porter Goss as the head of the CIA, Gen. Michael Hayden, was in charge of the NSA during this surveillance program.
From the FWIW department . . . If you want to sign a petition expressing your annoyance with this latest example of W's disregard for your rights, here's one. You'll have to give your name, but you know how I feel about that.
Yeah, yeah. A petition. Big whoop.
But it's a start.
[Update 05/12/2006 08:14 EDT] There's a nice graphic of the timeline of this whole sordid business, at the NY Times's site.
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Best bit of snark about W's lame response to this latest story, that I've read so far, comes from Josh Marshall.
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/stu/iraq/sandstorm.htm
Not sure who put that sandstorm link up, but thanks. Mighty impressive pix.
Here's Tom Tomorrow's take on the matter.
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