McConnell talks: It's a "classified world" and "Americans are going to die"

yep... he's out there spilling the beans... bushco can talk about whatever the hell they want to talk about, whenever and however they want to talk about it, as long as it serves their purpose... but, ask 'em a question and suddenly it's national security, executive privilege, state secrets, classified, or whatever other bullshit reason they want to cite...

highlowpoints from mcconnell's interview with the el paso times...

• McConnell confirmed for the first time that the private sector assisted with President Bush's warrantless surveillance program. AT&T, Verizon and other telecommunications companies are being sued for their cooperation. "Now if you play out the suits at the value they're claimed, it would bankrupt these companies," McConnell said, arguing that they deserve immunity for their help.

• He provided new details on court rulings handed down by the 11-member Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which approves classified eavesdropping operations and whose proceedings are almost always entirely secret. McConnell said a ruling that went into effect May 31 required the government to get court warrants to monitor communications between two foreigners if the conversation travels on a wire in the U.S. network. Millions of calls each day do, because of the robust nature of the U.S. systems.

• McConnell said it takes 200 hours to assemble a FISA warrant on a single telephone number. "We're going backwards," he said. "We couldn't keep up."

• Offering never-disclosed figures, McConnell also revealed that fewer than 100 people inside the United States are monitored under FISA warrants. However, he said, thousands of people overseas are monitored.

and what possible use would this information be if it wasn't used to inspire fear in the populace...?

Even as he shed new light on the classified operations, McConnell asserted that the current debate in Congress about whether to update the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act will cost American lives because of all the information it revealed to terrorists.

"Part of this is a classified world. The fact that we're doing it this way means that some Americans are going to die," he said.

message: "stop trying to find out what your government is doing in your name cuz it might cost you your life..."

uh, 'scuse me... who's doing the threatening here...? oops... i forgot... i'm not supposed to ask questions... ok, then... here's an observation...

terrorists (the REAL ones, that is, as opposed to the pathetic wannabes that were set-up by our government to LOOK like terrorists so the government could LOOK like it was protecting the "homeland") are not stupid... they probably know more about our government's surveillance programs and supporting technology than mcconnell does... pick up the quasi-cyberpunk, sci-fi thriller, The Traveler, by John Twelve Hawks, if you want to get a good picture of how things are REALLY going down... you'll never see a store security camera or your supermarket discount card the same way again... seriously, check it out...

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