Thursday, August 23, 2007

Right to Privately Fund Killing part II

Captain Ed talked about this first but I have to wonder how this fits into something I spouted off sometime earlier.

Interestingly, McConnell talked numbers. Less than 100 "US persons" have their communications monitored, and all under warrant.

Wendell Belew and Asim Ghafoor are US citizens as far as I have ever heard. So if they fell into this program and one believes McConnells numbers, then they don't have a case. It could be very well that these two things are not connected but think about this.

The number of foreign persons outside the US monitored through the NSA is in the thousands -- which, as McConnell notes, is still pretty "surgical".
Telephone numbers are, after are, fairly explicit points on which to focus. The NSA does not have millions of numbers monitored by vast armies of translators.