| Much Ado About Nothing Even if AT&T were somehow truly "guilty" of violating FISA, it isn't "wiretapping" 14 million customers.
If the courts even bother with this case, and if they found any liability, it would be ONLY to those customers for which there was no probable cause to tap - that's probably 100 people, not 14 million.
I agree that eventually this type of fishing activity could cause havoc for us, and we need oversight, but as of today, all of the ninnies crying about their civil rights being violated are WAAAY off base.
Don't get me wrong - I've had friends mistreated by the Justice Department almost to the extent of being sent to Gitmo... I've seen plenty of abuse of police powers in my years. But this whole "wiretapping" debate is silly, they're not wiretapping, they're data-mining. Wiretapping occurs for a select subset.
If they started using this method to prosecute domestically for non-terrorism-related crimes, I'd be the first person to hang the jury. But for bad guys outside the country, and their comrades lurking here, well, they don't play by our rules; we don't need to be civil with them. |
