Some comments on the NSA Wiretapping and an article in the washington post

This article By Arkin in the washington post got me thinking abit.
I highly suggest reading it and the comments to.

I just have to ask a set of questions.
If the NSA spying produced so few results per thousands of calls, a results level that is way below what proper intelligence and analysis has been producing on the terrorists to begin with.
Then why are we talking about increasing it and why did the president feel that stepping outside the law to specifically wiretap American citizens was needed when the law itself already gives him pretty much total free reign to do so.

Remember that prior to 9/11 we had the information about the plot knew about the terrorists and were just lacking the critical analysis and a proper political climate to accept those results since our president and his political circle decided that the information didn't fit there political world view.

If the program isn't producing any real viable results.
Why does the NSA want to change the laws that deal with its retention of private information (Increasing them).
why do we want to increase the effort when essentially all were doing is gathering information on citizens of the united states as well as foreign nationals who have nothing to do with terrorism or the terrorists.

If were not looking for the terrorists anymore then who are we looking at and why!


http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/earlywarning/2006/02/its_all_about_t.html
http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/earlywarning/2006/02/its_all_about_t.html#comments

And in regards to copyright and the eroding of our freedom of speech

An article that speaks to the horror that copyright is and has become a nice article as to why the new DRM and other changes to copyright are very bad.
Give this a read coyotegoth

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/01/AR2006020101062.html?referrer=email&referrer=email&referrer=email