From: Lloyd Parker on
In article <MPG.1f8dd485be8e903f989d78(a)News.Individual.NET>,
Keith <krw(a)att.bizzzz> wrote:
>In article <0h18i21ket4s0m5rkk8gckp0kk4oih33hh(a)4ax.com>, To-Email-
>Use-The-Envelope-Icon(a)My-Web-Site.com says...
>> On Wed, 04 Oct 06 14:48:36 GMT, lparker(a)emory.edu (Lloyd Parker)
>> wrote:
>>
>> >In article <MPG.1f8db6b8105f0bb9989d69(a)News.Individual.NET>,
>> > Keith <krw(a)att.bizzzz> wrote:
>> [snip]
>> >>
>> >>Phones (of the domestic type, anyway) aren't tapped without
>> >>warrant. Get with the program.
>> >>
>> >
>> >Tapped? That's semantics. How does the NSA know a call is going to
involve
>> >someone of interest? They monitor all calls and a computer "listens" for
>> >certain key words and phrases.
>> >
>> [snip]
>>
>> That's rarely the case, and not without warrant.
>>
>> What NSA was doing was using computer perusal of telephone _records_,
>> "To/From" data.
>>
>> From those suspicious records, taps were authorized by a judge.
>
>YEs, and the foreign "taps" were intercepted calls from
>"interesting" foreign numbers. They were not taps on phones.
>

Not in the old sense of physically connecting something to a phone. The NSA
was intercepting the calls though.
From: Lloyd Parker on
In article <MPG.1f8dd5b29aa6ac49989d7a(a)News.Individual.NET>,
Keith <krw(a)att.bizzzz> wrote:
>In article <eg0vov$s36$2(a)leto.cc.emory.edu>, lparker(a)emory.edu
>says...
>> In article <MPG.1f8db882374b5dc7989d6c(a)News.Individual.NET>,
>> Keith <krw(a)att.bizzzz> wrote:
>> >In article <eg0k2p$e61$1(a)leto.cc.emory.edu>, lparker(a)emory.edu
>> >says...
>> >> In article <MPG.1f8d91f2b6b5c0e8989d5f(a)News.Individual.NET>,
>> >> Keith <krw(a)att.bizzzz> wrote:
>> >> >In article <efugkv$4up$3(a)leto.cc.emory.edu>, lparker(a)emory.edu
>> >> >says...
>> >> >> In article <nrc5i2tq8jr4k99aqofmbbesm7em13ktok(a)4ax.com>,
>> >> >> John Larkin <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:
>> >> >> >On Tue, 03 Oct 2006 18:28:11 GMT, "Homer J Simpson"
>> >> >> ><nobody(a)nowhere.com> wrote:
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >>"Lloyd Parker" <lparker(a)emory.edu> wrote in message
>> >> >> >>news:eftptn$c8p$2(a)leto.cc.emory.edu...
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >>> Tell me how many times the Bill of Rights says "people" and how
many
>> >> times
>> >> >> >>> it
>> >> >> >>> says "citizens."
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >>SCOTUS has said that even visitors have the rights of citizens when
it
>> >> come
>> >> >> >>to legal processes. After all, you expect their homeland laws to
>> apply
>> >> in
>> >> >> >>the US would you?
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >Correct. But they also realize that the rights apply only when those
>> >> >> >people are physically in the USA. Which is why some bad guys are
held
>> >> >> >elsewhere.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >John
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> Well, Bush thought Gitmo qualified as "elsewhere" but the USSC said
no.
>> >> Then
>> >> >> he held people in Europe, which is raising a stink there. It might
keep
>> >> some
>> >> >> prospective EU members out even.
>> >> >
>> >> >Actually, no it didn't. It said only that Congress had some say in
>> >> >the matter.
>> >> >
>> >> No, Bush claimed the detainees could not sue in US courts and the case
>> should
>> >> be dismissed. The USSC said they could, and heard the case. Not
talking
>> >> about the way of trying them; talking about the right to sue.
>> >
>> >No, it said that the Bush plan hadn't been authorized by congress,
>> >but that they were free to do so.
>> >
>> >---
>> > Keith
>>
>> No, Bush claimed the court didn't even have the right to hear the case
>> because they were held outside the US, at Gitmo. The USSC obviously
>> disagreed, as they heard the case.
>>
>They heard the case but the decision was that his plan couldn't go
>forward without congressional approval. Pay attention.
>

The military commissions part. Bush tried to claim Gitmo was outside the
federal courts' jurisdiction. The courts all rejected that.

>BTW, the SCotUS is not superior to any other branch, or at least is
>not supposed to be. They've been told before "with what army are
>you going to enforce your decision".
>

Oh great, the stupid response.
From: Lloyd Parker on
In article <mv38i29lpc9s9sshrkdrbpgramufns6jn4(a)4ax.com>,
Gordon <gordonlr(a)DELETEswbell.net> wrote:
>On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 18:46:00 GMT, "Homer J Simpson"
><nobody(a)nowhere.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>"Ken Smith" <kensmith(a)green.rahul.net> wrote in message
>>news:eg0hcc$h85$2(a)blue.rahul.net...
>>
>>>>Clinton was successful.
>>>>
>>>>Bush is a failure.
>>>
>>> Unless you assume some really bad things about his motives that is.
>>
>>9/11 was Bush's failure.
>>
>How long had Bush been in office when 9/11 occurred? Who was in
>office the 8 years before that?
>
>Gordon
Oh great, another stupid response.
From: Lloyd Parker on
In article
<kurtullman-8700B9.17512004102006(a)customer-201-125-217-207.uninet.net.mx>,
Kurt Ullman <kurtullman(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>In article <HLVUg.13315$7I1.5654(a)newssvr27.news.prodigy.net>,
> <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>
>> I don't care. If you're listening to a phone call to which the phone in my
>> living room is party, then as a citizen of the US, I demand that your
>> listening be carried out according to my Constitutional rights.
>
> Probably is. Under a warrant for a phone anything that goes on over
>that phone is legally admissable, even if the other person's phone
>doesn't have a warrant on it.

Bush didn't get warrants!

>It well settled that as long as one phone
>is legally tapped, any phone that calls it or is called by it is fair
>game. Since there are no restrictions on tapping a phone outside of the
>country, it would be legal tap. Thus anyone the phone calls or anyone
>who calls the phone could be listened to as noted. Would be a rather
>interesting case to make.
From: Lloyd Parker on
In article <v2c8i2tp1kf97gkk922mmi6brvb9iibqql(a)4ax.com>,
Gordon <gordonlr(a)DELETEswbell.net> wrote:
>On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 22:50:58 +0100, Eeyore
><rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>Gordon wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 18:46:00 GMT, "Homer J Simpson" wrote:
>>> >"Ken Smith" <kensmith(a)green.rahul.net> wrote in message
>>> >
>>> >>>Clinton was successful.
>>> >>>
>>> >>>Bush is a failure.
>>> >>
>>> >> Unless you assume some really bad things about his motives that is.
>>> >
>>> >9/11 was Bush's failure.
>>>
>>> How long had Bush been in office when 9/11 occurred? Who was in
>>> office the 8 years before that?
>>
>>What's that got to do with it ?
>>
>>You're going to suggest next that politicians currently in power won't
>>take the credit for the success of their predecessors' policies too ?
>>
>>The fact is that it happened 'on Bush's watch' and he's responsible.
>>
>>Graham
>>
>Had the 9/11 attacks happened during the Bush inauguration
>ceremony, would this have been because of Bush's negligence and
>ineptitude? How about the day after the inauguration? The week
>after? The month after? What would be a reasonable cut-off date
>for any responsibility of the previous presidency?
>
>Gordon

Bush was warned repeatedly OBL was a threat. He ignored them. Read
Woodward's book.