FBI Raids Home of Suspected NSA Leaker 608
During the hours that Congress was debating codifying the Bush administration's wiretapping by revising the FISA law, the Department of Justice was raiding the home of former Justice official Thomas M. Tamm to identify the person who first brought the illicit program to light: "The agents seized Tamm's desktop computer, two of his children's laptops and a cache of personal files... the raid was related to a Justice criminal probe into who leaked details of the warrantless eavesdropping program to the news media... James X. Dempsey of the Center for Democracy and Technology said the raid was 'amazing' and shows the administration's misplaced priorities: using FBI agents to track down leakers instead of processing intel warrants to close the [purported surveillance] gaps."
What's the solution? Depends ... (Score:2, Funny)
"FBI Raids Home of Suspected NSA Leaker ".
Oops - NSA, not NASA.
(Will NASA diaper jokes ever go out of style? That too depends ... :-)
Phew! (Score:5, Funny)
Thank God we're finally catching these damned terrorists. I hope he hangs.
Well said!!! (Score:5, Funny)
[Republican parody mode off]
Re:Objectivity? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Objectivity? (Score:2, Funny)
No, seriously.
So what's the big deal? (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, wait. Yeah, I guess we are.
Re:Let me correct that last sentence for you: (Score:1, Funny)
Here's a scenario for you. (Score:5, Funny)
Unnamed extra #1: "Sir, you need to see this. It's Osama's cell phone! And the call is coming across OUR circuit!"
JB: "Dammit! He's up to something. I want that call intercepted and get me a translator! I want to know what he's saying and to whom he is saying it!"
Unnamed extra #2: "But sir, if we don't get a warrant within the next 72 hours, that will be ILLEGAL!"
JB: "No problem. I only need 24. Just tap that call!"
JB walks over to a different phone and picks it up.
JB: "Get me the FISA court! This is an emergency!"
Begin one-way telephone communication bit
JB: "I have an emergency and I need a warrant! No, I'm not going to wait! Yes, I will be right over! That's right, I want your Liberal judge ass sitting on that bench when I arrive!"
JB slams down the phone and walks over to unnamed extra #1.
JB: "Are you getting it all?"
UE#1: "Yes sir. Will there be a problem with the warrant?"
JB: "Not as long as I still have 3 days to get it there won't be."
JB then grabs some paper work and runs to his car. He then races across D.C. avoiding enemy mines, fighter aircraft and snipers. He screeches to a halt outside of the Court and runs up the steps. He slams open the door to the judge's chambers and throws the paperwork at him.
JB: "Listen, you have less than 71 hours and 26 minutes to sign that warrant or I'll have your terrorist loving Liberal ass!"
Unnamed Judge: "Always nice to see you, Jack. Here's your warrant. Let's see, that leaves you 71 hours and 24 minutes to get back to your secret spy base. Can you manage that this time without speeding or running over anything? Hmmmmm?"
JB: "You Liberal judges make me sick! My ass is on the line every time I have to drive over here! Good bye!"
JB then runs down to his car, notices the parking ticket on the windshield and throws it away. He then gets in and races back to work. Avoiding various mines, attacking aircraft and snipers.
Yes, the "ACLU types" are really trying to "slow down the wiretaps". 72 hours is just not enough time to get a warrant. What if JB had to take some time off to go look at swatches with his wife? What if he wanted to maybe take a couple of days in Reno when a terrorist call was coming in? Maybe there was a concert he wanted to go see! It's just too much to ask for them to process the paperwork in only THREE DAYS!
Re:Here's a scenario for you, with more ... (Score:3, Funny)
JB: DAMN! why wasn't I told that there is a secure full-color fax at the FISA court, and could someone tell me who makes and sends my secure-faxes in this office
Unnamed extra #21: DAMN, JB, this is a test
Re:Actions like these distinguish the system (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Let Me Rephrase This To The Bush Haters (Score:4, Funny)
What I find so sadly amusing about hardcore righties like him (he's a talk radio radical, loves Savage, Rush, Hannity, etc) is that they can ignore the evidence of Bush lying us into war, abusing our civil rights, exposing CIA agents, fucking the economy, ass-fucking the environment, tea-bagging the military, and tubgirling the entire Iraq war, but it's the "wetback crisis" that finally has them upset. But oh, they blame this on those goddamn liberals who think that the rights of "furriners" are more important than honest "murricans", along with venom for Bush "going along with them," but they never stop to ask "Who the fuck is employing all these illegals?" They may be illegal but they ain't dumb, they wouldn't be coming here if there wasn't any work! Go after the people employing them and you'll see the flow stop. But who makes the money off of that? Republican-owned businesses. Aaaaaaah, now we see the truth. Obviously it's a fucking liberal conspiracy to get these wetbacks in here working for Republicans. *Jolly twirls finger beside head*
I do wish the dems were as effective political creatures as the talk radio radicals seem to think they are. Shit, with the amount of opposition they're allegedly putting up, Bush should have been impeached already. Back in reality-land, all I see them doing is asking Bush if he'd like a rimjob to go with all that ass-kissing they're doing.
Re:What's the solution? Depends ... (Score:4, Funny)
Your government, working to scare the shit out of you since 9/11.
Re:Let me correct that last sentence for you: (Score:4, Funny)
Re:What's the solution? Depends ... (Score:3, Funny)
Kittens. And Republicans. But mostly kittens. mostly.