Comments on: Does the Bush Administration Work For Al Qaeda?

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By: Bill

Bill — Sat, 20 May 2006 00:46:55 +0000

True to form for government work. The man at the top, Hayden in this case is swayed by smoothe talk rather than results. Been there, seen that.

A successful program was ditched by the Air Force because it contained only two man weeks of effort by someone who knew what he was doing in favor of a program that was yet to work at all which contained over three man years of effort. Thank God the USSR didn’t attack and are just as F’d up.

By: Ted

Ted — Thu, 18 May 2006 22:52:23 +0000

Fred, true, the facts have not been nailed down on this yet. For the sake of my argument, I was relying on the information originally published in USA Today and widely referenced since then, including by members of Congress.

As for the “liberal media”, you might want to check out a report published by FAIR eight years ago on the topic. They conducted extensive research before reaching a conclusion.

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2447

By: Fred

Fred — Thu, 18 May 2006 17:22:56 +0000

Ted said: Note that NSA does not currently gather the calling data – it receives this data from the phone companies.

Fred: Who says? The phone companies have denied giving the numbers. If you are basing your beliefs on reports from the liberal media, then good luck in finding out the truth.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 18 May 2006 16:44:37 +0000

What we should start doing as an experiment is when we get unsolicited calls from salesmen and other annoyances, regardless of what they are selling, we should, in a loud clear voice say:

No, I will not join your Al-Queda Cell!
No, I will not join your terrorist network!

Maybe we could memorize some stock phrases in Arabic. Then see what happens.

By: Ted

Ted — Thu, 18 May 2006 15:40:42 +0000

Kevin, I am a bit skeptical of “legal” aspect of this. I doubt the existence of an algorithm that can discern calling patterns without access to calling data. On the face of it, it is an absurd notion. The analysis program must be fed calling data so it can be processed.

Note that NSA does not currently gather the calling data – it receives this data from the phone companies. I would be very interested to learn how an analysis program would alter that scenario.

I am also less willing than you to accept the overall validity of this story. As far as I can tell, it is attributed to a couple of unnamed sources. I’m not dismissing it, but I would need significantly more corroboration before I am convinced.

By: Annoying Old Guy

Annoying Old Guy — Thu, 18 May 2006 14:10:22 +0000

Two notes:

1) While the development may have happened under Clinton, that was pure coincidence and we see that the Clinton administration made no effort to get it deployed.

2) This kind of thing pales to insignificance compared to the creation of the DHS on the scale of “not serious about domestic security”.