Reply #6: No Rockefeller admitted on Senate floor that the wiretapping will be done to all long-distance calls

[Leopolds Ghost]

The filtering system for phone and e-mail on ALL long distance networks
is completely beyond the 4th Amendment and cannot be made subject to it.

It would have to be completely disbanded if warrants were required.

This is not about individual traces on overseas terrorists.

They are monitoring all electronic communications including your own,
with the consent of your phone provider, and wish to legalize their
actions.

As Rocklefeller admitted, this is about setting up filters -- filters
run by servers in switching stations the size of a city block on the
grounds of Fort Meade. These filters process all communications in
the US (up to several petabytes) and violate the 4th Amendment.

Under the new law this violation will be OK provided the "ultimate target"
is overseas. Spying on intermediate US citizen targets without a
warrant, in an indefinite chain of degrees of separation will be
legally permissible.

The NSA will no longer be described as a black op and the federal
government will be legally able to acknowledge its existence and
the existence of the server farms that are reading this, right now,
and filtering it for code words (such as "NSA" and "terrorist").

In addition, one should not think wiretapping was not the real issue
but retroactive immunity is.

Either it should be a criminal anti-4th Amendment act or not.

If it is legalized, then telecoms will not be prosecuted on the grounds
that the government, Democrats AND Republicans is now encouraging their
spying and should not penalize them for doing so without authorization.

That is why Citibank got away with renaming itself "Citibanc"
and illegally purchasing investment firms to become the worlds
largest financial institution illegally, in anticipation of
the Clinton banking deregulation act which retroactively
legalized their mergers. Then they changed the name back.

In the interim they were operating under soon-to-be defunct
New Deal prohibitions on an organization calling itself a "bank"
purchasing investment companies.