Thursday, May 18, 2006

Why do it legally

posted by The Vidiot @ 9:45 AM Permalink

when doing it illegally is just so much gosh darned fun!
Excerpt: The National Security Agency developed a pilot program in the late 1990s that would have enabled it to gather and analyze massive amounts of communications data without running afoul of privacy laws. But after the Sept. 11 attacks, it shelved the project -- not because it failed to work -- but because of bureaucratic infighting and a sudden White House expansion of the agency's surveillance powers, according to several intelligence officials.
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