Thoughts 16 May 2007 12:29 pm
Wiretaps and ISPs
Well, your ISP now provides the feds access to the latest wiretap equipment. Your ISP was forced to install and activate said wiretap equipment by May 14, 2007.
Remember all those illegal wiretaps, courtesy of King George and the NSA.
Ask AT&T about that, oh nevermind they haven’t got the immunity our King asked for as yet, so they ain’t talking.
According to the NYT, then AG John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller III both threatened to resign back in 2004 over the use of illegal wiretaps.
A guy named Gonzales was counsel to King George at the time.
The feds wiretaped the hell out of Las Vegas because of a plot by Al Queda, that never existed.
It turned out that during the process of translation and interpretation, some agent dropped the ball. And probably got promoted for the fuck up.
They say that Law enforcement will still have to get court orders to use this equipment, but when you consider that they still have letters being issued that give them access to our data, but cannot be acknowledged or challenged.
Considering that good King George is asking for legal immunity for anyone who helped the NSA, and other dot.gov’s, tap our phones at the behest of the Whitehouse.
And giving carefull consideration to the stripping of our rights in recent years by a Whitehouse that continually tries to rule by fiat, not by law.
I think that this new equipment, combined with the FBI’s vacuum cleaner software that has replaced carnivour, should be cause us to be more than merely concerned.
Orwell was way to optimistic.