Sunday, May 28, 2006
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Jeff Jacoby: Phone-record hysteria at the ACLU - '...To anti-Bush partisans, the administration cannot possibly have any legitimate interest in domestic telephone records, and it was an outrage for Verizon, BellSouth, and AT&T to have supplied them. ``We cannot sit by while the government and the phone companies collude in this massive, illegal, and fundamentally un-American invasion of our privacy," the ACLU's executive director, Anthony Romero, thundered last week. Funny -- that wasn't the way he spoke 18 months ago, when the ACLU itself was discovered to be using sophisticated data-mining to amass information secretly about its own members and donors. Of course there is a difference between the two cases. The ACLU's data-mining was part of a fund-raising effort. The NSA's is part of the war effort...'
