FEINGOLD LETTER: on Bush's NSA Data Mining Activities

[kpete]

Monday :: January 23, 2006

Feingold on Bush's NSA Data Mining Activities
Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) sent this letter (pdf)http://feingold.senate.gov/Negroponteltr_12306.pdf
to National Intelligence Director John Negroponte, NSA Director Keith Alexander and Donald Rumsfeld today.

A snippet:

"One element of the NSA's domestic spying program that has gotten too little attention is the government's reportedly widespread use of data mining technology to analyze the communications of ordinary Americans. Today I am calling on the Director of National Intelligence, the Defense Secretary and the Director of the NSA to explain whether and how the government is using data mining technology, and what authority it claims for doing so.

Data mining is a new, unproven and intrusive technology in the counterterrorism context, and we need to know how it is being used, how effective it is in finding patterns of terrorist activity, and whether there are sufficient safeguards to protect the privacy of Americans. We can and must fight terrorism aggressively without infringing on the privacy of law-abiding Americans."

http://talkleft.com/new_archives/013799.html

[kpete]

1. I thought everyone here LOVED Feingold

Where is everyone?

[mom cat]

4. They are busy faxing and calling on the Alito issue.Several good threads

are falling through the cracks right now.

[pstans]

6. Everyone here loves Clark

A lot of people love Feingold though and are waiting for those Clarkies to come on board!

http://www.russforpresident.com

[wordpix]

7. I love Feingold, myself. Think he'd be a great pres candidate

[mom cat]

2. Feingold is looking good. Call him and tell him you appreciate his

stance and ask him to filibuster Alito while you are at it.
1-888-818-6641

[helderheid]

3. run Russ, run!

:yourock:

[mb7588a]

5. Once again, Russ is damn straight. nt.