Re: [privacy] Echoes of Watergate in NSA Coutroom

["StyleWar" <stylewar () cox net>]

Yea, I caught that ... Ignorance isn't confined to those who oppose my view,
it just means that AT&T is gonna need a better lawyer...If I were the judge
forced to listen to that argument I think I would have had to staple my lips
shut to avoid laughing out loud.

-

StyleWar 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fergie [mailto:fergdawg () netzero net] 
> Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2006 12:16 PM
> To: stylewar () cox net
> Cc: privacy () whitestar linuxbox org
> Subject: RE: [privacy] Echoes of Watergate in NSA Coutroom
>
> The reason why I posted this -- aside from the sheer 
> curiosity factor -- is due to this paragraph:
>
> [snip]
>
> But there's some irony in the fact that it was AT&T to first 
> make the comparison in a federal courtroom here, while 
> defending itself from charges of complicity in Bush's 
> warrantless spying.
>
> [snip]
>
> What exactly are you critisizing, or are you making noise 
> simply for the sake of making noise? :-)
>
> - ferg
>
>
> -- "StyleWar" <stylewar () cox net> wrote:
> Oh lord. Just when I didn't think the world could get any 
> more creative, now there seems to be a MIME plugin for bull$hit...
>
> I've got a comparison too... Franklin Roosevelt was a 
> Democrat, and his chief advisor at Yalta was Alger Hiss. We 
> now know that Alger was a communist spy, and that the 
> concessions at Yalta helped shape the cold war.
>
> Bill Clinton, also a Democrat, took a trip to Moscow less 
> than a year after Russia crushed Czechoslovakia, and to this 
> DAY he doesn't 'recall' what he was there for or who he went to see...
>
> You do the math.
>
> -
>
> StyleWar
>
> "If everyone' thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking." 
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Fergie [mailto:fergdawg () netzero net]
> > Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 10:22 PM
> > To: privacy () whitestar linuxbox org
> > Subject: [privacy] Echoes of Watergate in NSA Coutroom
> >
> > Kevin Poulsen on Wired News:
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > It was perhaps inevitable that someone would compare 
> President Bush's 
> > extrajudicial wiretapping operations to Richard Nixon's 1970s-era 
> > surveillance of journalists and political enemies. Both 
> were carried 
> > out by Republican presidents; both bypassed the courts; 
> both relied on 
> > the cooperation of U.S. telecommunications companies.
> >
> > But there's some irony in the fact that it was AT&T to 
> first make the 
> > comparison in a federal courtroom here, while defending itself from 
> > charges of complicity in Bush's warrantless spying.
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > More here:
> > http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71227-0.html
> >
> > - ferg
>
>
> --
> "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
>  Engineering Architecture for the Internet  
> fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net  ferg's tech 
> blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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