Comments on: Telecoms Cut FBI Wiretaps Over Late Bills

Justice Department Audit Cites Lax Oversight, Poor Supervision Of Eavesdropping Program

[kansas1946]

AP) Telephone companies have cut off FBI wiretaps used to eavesdrop on suspected criminals because of the bureau''s repeated failures to pay phone bills on time.
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LOL. Well maybe we have all been worried about our privacy needlessly. Maybe the government under the Bush administration is just to inept to be able to spy on is, just like their bumbling, inept, boss!

[mcv57]

LoL, FBI - Freeloaders, Bums, and Idiots

[ioweign]

Look, do me a favor, name one person who has had their rights violated by this and ended up in jail from trumped up charges due to unconstitutional evidence gathering...just one case. one.

Posted by rangerdahl at 06:27 PM : Jan 10, 2008


Brandon Mayfield

Mayfield was subject to unconstitutional surveillance under the Patriot Act and subsequently arrested and held without charge. Mayfield wrote a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee members Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Russell Feingold (D-WI) asking that they consider the effect that the FISA Amendments Act of 2007 would have on innocent Americans.

"Mr. Mayfield%u2019s case is a cautionary tale," said Caroline Fredrickson, director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office. "When we give the government too much power at the cost of our civil liberties, no one is safe. Mr. Mayfield%u2019s experience has taught us that expanding government powers without checks and balances can actually effect and ruin people''s lives. Congress has an obligation to make certain that innocent Americans and their rights are protected."

[rafterman1]

How ironic. The Constitution doesn''t stop illegal wiretaps, not paying the bill does. The "new" America in a nutshell.

[gkc99]

So the phone companies roll over for illegal wiretaps, in violation of their own contracts with consumers, but nobody better fail to pay their bill!

[formrusmcsgt]

VOTE RON PAUL...STOP THE THEFT--SAVE THE COUNTRY--SAVE YOUR FAMILIES!!!

Posted by Republicae at 06:45 PM : Jan 10, 2008

Yeah right....

Ron Paul ''90s newsletters rant against blacks, ***

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A series of newsletters in the name of GOP presidential hopeful Ron Paul contain several racist remarks -- including one that says order was restored to Los Angeles after the 1992 riots when blacks went "to pick up their welfare checks."

CNN recently obtained the newsletters -- written in the 1990s and one from the late 1980s -- after a report was published about their existence in The New Republic.

None of the newsletters CNN found says who wrote them, but each was published under Paul''s name between his stints as a U.S. congressman from Texas.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/10/paul.newsletters/?iref=mpstoryview

[Republicae]

That''s absolutely hysterical, especially considering this same government and its Federal Reserve collaborators are effectively bankrupting the people of this country through their fiat monetary system.

Why is it that no other candidate but Ron Paul is addressing this issue.

Consider this: a person making $32,000 per year today has the equivalent purchasing power of $5,907.40 in 1970 dollars. So, the same person making $15.38 per hour today is equal to making $2.84 per hour in real purchasing power in 1970 dollars. It is not the price of goods and services that have risen so much, but the purchasing power of our dollar that has been so drastically reduced. Our standard of living has been effectively reduced through fiat money inflation.

Is there any wonder that poverty is becoming rampant? The government has no other choice but enforce minimum wages in order to keep the working poor at some level of subsistence. At the current $5.85 per hour a person has the same 1970 purchasing power of $1.08 per hour, at 40 hours per week that person is effectively making $43.20 per week to make ends meet.

VOTE RON PAUL...STOP THE THEFT--SAVE THE COUNTRY--SAVE YOUR FAMILIES!!!

[rangerdahl]

b-easy63:

Um, what? Look, there is now way they monitored the number of phone calls the paranoids claim. For some reason, liberals think that the ocnstitution is on its death throws due to gestapo tactics by the government. Look, do me a favor, name one person who has had their rights violated by this and ended up in jail from trumped up charges due to unconstitutional evidence gathering...just one case. one. You guys are delusional and you should be ashamed of yourselves for being so niave and gullible.

[rowdytexan2]

I guess they had to put the bills under executive privilege before they got paid???

This is priceless! omg, I can see some agent in a closet in Quantico listening to a conversation between some legislator having phone *** and suddenly the line goes dead!!! rofl rofl rofl!!!

Or maybe somebody overheard a conversation between Cheney and Osama talking about the next payment, got paranoid someone else might be listening in, and pulled the plug on all the lines and claimed the lines were cut off for nonpayment, rofl! rofl!

And some $15 an hour accounting employee faking bills and putting the money in their own account at the tune of $25,000, omg that''s hilarious!

Somebody pull the plug on Bush''s Quickbooks quick!!!

[taylpatr]

Last time I checked, they still worked for US!So they take our tax money to pay for phone bills that are used to spy on us for our own good, all the while running the biggest deficet ever into the worst recession ever. Capitalism is a good thing?