Spy Protest Done Nicely

[yeahwho]

CNN (http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/01/24/nsa.strategy/index.html) was there and the protesters were there. This is one of many ways we can begin to take back our country. The mileage from this simple standing up is excellent, a very good job indeed.

Just thought I'd share this.

[abcdefz]

You should see The Squid and the Whale. (y)

[yeahwho]

You should see The Squid and the Whale. (y)
Wha's Dat?

[abcdefz]

A taker! :D

Maybe the funniest, most observant, acidic movie last year.

And it has nothing to do with your thread.

cleek (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/squid_and_the_whale/)

[kaiser soze]

as bush would say...

“It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!”

[abcdefz]

:D

[D_Raay]

So the Bush administration, in carrying out wiretaps without warrants as part of its war on terror, may have been less than civil with our civil rights. At the very least, it made us safer. Right? As it turns out... Not so much.

According to yet another story in the New York Times, the "thousands" of leads that the N.S.A. generated each month were almost always dead ends, a flood of faulty intelligence that led F.B.I. agents on countless wild goose chases. Said one harried F.B.I. agent, "Come on, I need the good leads! The Achmed al-Glengarry leads!"

According to the times article, the F.B.I. became so frustrated with unproductive N.S.A. material, agents would joke that a new bunch of tips meant "More calls to Pizza Hut." Still, better than the days when J. Edgar Hoover's commie hunts meant "More calls to Victoria's Secret."

Officials in the administration have shed a more positive, if less truth-like, spin on the program's effectiveness. Last month, former N.S.A. director Michael Hayden stated, "I can say unequivocally that we have gotten information through this program that would not otherwise have been available." He continued, "Like, for instance, 2nd grade teacher Beulah Hart of des Moines, Iowa? Not a terrorist, but definitely into pornographic macramé."

[Ali]

And when these guys DO find something, no matter how spurious, you can bet they'll make it stick.

Enemy combatant or draftee. The choice is yours.