Reply #41: Accounts of the monitoring have been... [View All]

[Mithras61]

all over the news. I'm pulling information from several sources together, no single one of which cites the SPECIFIC method being used (mostly citing national security interests as a reason to not give more details). You would have to read almost as extensively as I have to be able to correlate the information and to realize that for the NSA to tap the calls they admit they did would require access to several major switching stations, and that the calls being relayed through the switching stations were NOT just international calls, and that several groups of Quakers and anti-war groups have been identified as having had their calls routinely monitored.

There were several dozen other articles that I read, most of which contained only a idbit of information that wasn't in the other articles. Also, so many of the statements from national leaders of both parties have a little here & a little there, so you would have to read most of them as well. It's one of those things where if you aren't paying attention to all of it, you miss the big picture because the details aren't in any one single story.