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[Brian Wood]

On May 6, 2008, at 10:59 AM, David Brodbeck wrote:

>>> On May 5, 2008, at 3:15 PM, Calvin Dodge wrote:
>>>> No, it wasn't "clearly a violation of the law".  The phone  
>>>> companies
>>>> made good-faith effort to cooperate with the Federal government  
>>>> in its
>>>> attempts to track terrorist activity, and they believed they were
>>>> operating within the law.
>
> I don't buy that, because Qwest's lawyers saw something fishy and
> balked.  I think the other phone companies went along because of
> political pressure, not because they thought it was legal.  These days
> you can get some people to do anything and give up any rights they  
> have
> just by making vague claims that it will help stop terrorism.

Very true, and the "anti-terrorist" operations seem to assume that the  
bad guys have the intelligence of mud. Surely any terrorist outfit  
worth its salt knows that telephone communications can be intercepted  
and will take steps to stop damage from such interception, or even use  
the fact that the calls will be monitored to their advantage.

The only "terrorists" you are likely to catch by such "cops and  
robbers" kid's games are incredibly stupid wannabees or "enemies" with  
the same intelligence level as the idiots chasing them.

It's a sad fact of life that a lot of "terrorists" are more highly  
motivated and intelligent than most of the people trying to catch them.

beww