http://www.kennelson.com/newblog/patriot-act-8835 Politics, Technology, and other stuff from St. George, UT Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:11:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://www.kennelson.com/newblog/patriot-act-8835/comment-page-1#comment-5458 Benjamin Franklin Sat, 27 Feb 2010 06:51:33 +0000 http://www.kennelson.com/newblog/patriot-act-8835#comment-5458 "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

]]> http://www.kennelson.com/newblog/patriot-act-8835/comment-page-1#comment-5454 TR Sat, 27 Feb 2010 04:07:14 +0000 http://www.kennelson.com/newblog/patriot-act-8835#comment-5454 All the heartburn here was brought on by fiber optic (FO) technology and anti - Bush politics. We've always spied on foreigners overseas. Bush needed to maintain this capability and keep up with foreign networkers who were throwing away mobile phones. U.S. citizens were always and still are off limits without a subpoena. FO made distributed gateways possible, especially for data traffic, thus placing them inside the domestic system. Only an NSA type outfit could find the calls and data messages so they got tasked to do it quietly so the bad guys wouldn't know. Ignorant, scaredy cat do gooders and anti-war numbskulls went berserk when a traitor leaked the task in progress to the NYT. Terrorist activity triggered the upgrade which would have been necessary anyway. All the heartburn here was brought on by fiber optic (FO) technology and anti – Bush politics. We’ve always spied on foreigners overseas. Bush needed to maintain this capability and keep up with foreign networkers who were throwing away mobile phones. U.S. citizens were always and still are off limits without a subpoena. FO made distributed gateways possible, especially for data traffic, thus placing them inside the domestic system. Only an NSA type outfit could find the calls and data messages so they got tasked to do it quietly so the bad guys wouldn’t know. Ignorant, scaredy cat do gooders and anti-war numbskulls went berserk when a traitor leaked the task in progress to the NYT. Terrorist activity triggered the upgrade which would have been necessary anyway.

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