[RenegadeRick]

http://www.examiner.com/a-1082339~Melanie_Scarborough__Somebody_is_lying_about_FISA.html
As a technician for AT&T, Mark Klein says he helped connect a device three years ago that copied onto a government supercomputer every phone call, e-mail and Internet search made through the company’s network.

“AT&T provided the National Security Agency with everything that ordinary Americans communicated over the Internet,” Klein said recently on Capitol Hill. “This program included not only AT&T customers, but everyone who used the Internet because AT&T carries messages for other carriers also.”

President Bush denies that. “We’re not mining or trolling through the personal lives of millions of innocent Americans,” he said. “Our efforts are focused on links to al Qaeda and their known affiliates. The privacy of ordinary Americans is fiercely protected in all our activities.”

Only one of those men can be telling the truth.

Obviously, Mark Klein must be lying. What with W's awesome track record of truthiness on Iraqi WMD, the Iranian nuclear progam and all that, why would we doubt him?

 

[LordOpie]

Or they're both right.

Bush didn't claim they weren't doing it, just that they were looking for terrorists. It's wonderful double speak.

 

[syadasti]

The Narus system scans all traffic on a large scale - its a real product in use today. It does not selectively scan.

This made the news/RM in May 2006...

 

[sanjuro]

BTW, was that 10B-T interface, or did they splurge on a 100megabit?

 

[MikeD]

I don't think anyone's lying about FISA per se...I think it's been apparent for some time (since the warrantless wiretaps first surfaced in the press) that the admin is simply ignoring FISA, which provides a legal framework for executive actions, and doing what it wants.