November 26, 2008

He laughs bitterly, yet again...

In the previous post, Doug commented with a link to this 2006 article from American Thinker, about wiretapping and surveillance under Clinton...

The controversy following revelations that U.S. intelligence agencies have monitored suspected terrorist related communications since 9/11 reflects a severe case of selective amnesia by the New York Times and other media opponents of President Bush. They certainly didn't show the same outrage when a much more invasive and indiscriminate domestic surveillance program came to light during the Clinton administration in the 1990's. At that time, the Times called the surveillance 'a necessity.'
'If you made a phone call today or sent an -mail to a friend, there's a good chance what you said or wrote was captured and screened by the country's largest intelligence agency.' (Steve Kroft, CBS' 60 Minutes)
Those words were aired on February 27, 2000 to describe the National Security Agency and an electronic surveillance program called Echelon whose mission, according to Kroft,
'is to eavesdrop on enemies of the state: foreign countries, terrorist groups and drug cartels. But in the process, Echelon's computers capture virtually every electronic conversation around the world.'
Echelon was, or is (its existence has been under--reported in the American media), an electronic eavesdropping program conducted by the United States and a few select allies such as the United Kingdom....

If I saw that article, I'd forgotten it. It's got some hot stuff, about Echelon surveillance product being passed to big Clinton donors for use against business rivals, and other fun things.

What foul frauds leftists and Democrats are. Just think of of the torrents of crap we've been subjected to about how Bush is "shredding our civil liberties," and such. And none of those phonies cared a bit about Clinton's much bigger surveillance program...

Posted by John Weidner at November 26, 2008 1:47 PM
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