For example, reporter Harris Faulkner , on the January 25 edition of The O'Reilly Factor , used the term during a news brief when she noted that " '[s]trange and farfetched' On April 12, , then-White House press secretary Ari Fleisher adopted the term, and Fox News immediately followed suit in its reporting. But beginning January 25, use of the phrase began to appear in Fox News reports without any indication that the White House has promoted it.
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Thu, Mar 6th pm — Timothy Lee. If you liked this post, you may also be interested in Why Now? Government's number one priority: Control the masses. National Security comes next. Mitch the Bitch , 6 Mar pm. We get idiots spewing nonsense like this ad nauseum while the terrorists "welcome death" Wake up you fn morons or it's going to be way to late, except of course your whining just before your fn head goes flying through the air Liberals and the media they control are the real enemies of freedom.
DanC , 6 Mar pm. Mike profile , 6 Mar pm. So you would prefer that we treat all people like criminals, remove civil rights, and basically stamp out everything that the US stands for, over a program that has been shown to have little benefit and which would work just as well with oversight preventing many of the abuses?
Your logic is faulty and your reading comprehension is reprehensible. Tim makes a few things clear: 1 The benefit to keeping the programs secret is practically nil. How that leads you to conclude that the system works is beyond me. Tim is not saying don't fight the terrorists or don't use tools available. He's saying do it properly in a way that avoids abuses and is more effective.
Why do you think this ineffective, abusive system is better than the other way? Jess , 6 Mar pm. Technology has always been the enemy of privacy. The more people realize that, the easier it will be for them to keep their lives more private. This is a bit of a blanket statement. Encryption technology has allowed for an increase in privacy for those who take advantage of it.
You can argue that it's possible to break that same encryption using technology, but unless you're using a poor algorithm, it is impractical.
Jess , 7 Mar am. Encryption also raises the visibility of what you are doing and make you look suspicious. I would rather send anything sensitive by courier rather than email it. And, unfortunately, privacy is not something that is guaranteed by the constitution no matter what people say. Democrats accuse the administration of attempting to justify their past actions violating citizens' civil liberties. The bill never passes the Senate.
November 7 Midterm Elections The entire House of Representatives and one-third of the Senate face election, amidst growing concerns over the Iraq war and other scandals.
The Democrats gain control of both legislative chambers and promise sweeping reforms and oversight of all government activities. This document is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License, which means that you can copy and modify it as long as the entire work including additions remains under this license. Facebook Twitter Reddit Email Print. However, an exception is created allowing the President to use warrantless wiretapping to respond to national security issues. The Committee's final report condemns these abuses as excessive, undemocratic, and unconstitutional.
The report also suggests that Congress create rules limiting intelligence gathering tactics. Citizens President Jimmy Carter issues Executive Order , which states that "No agency within the Intelligence Community shall engage in any electronic surveillance directed against a United States person abroad or designed to intercept a communication sent from, or intended for receipt within, the United States except as permitted by the procedures established pursuant to section It requires providers to install new wiretapping devices on their phone systems, and ensures that the government will have free access to communications information.
Bush officially takes office as President, and names John Ashcroft, a former senator from Missouri, as his new attorney general. Republicans support Ashcroft as a nominee intimately familiar with the workings of the US government and its policies.
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