NSA monitors domestic cellular

[Sunder]

"National security"is the passphrase to the constitution.  Or haven't you
noticed.

In this case, I don't think anyone will complain very loudly.  In this
case, for once, the NSA would be right, and it wouldn't just be FUD.

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On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Derek Balling wrote:

> Doesn't domestic surveillance of civilian cel-phone calls, without a 
> warrant, fall into a really "Gray"[1] area? I thought NSA wasn't 
> permitted to do that...
> 
> D
> 
> [1] For suitably dark and illegal values of gray
> 
> At 12:36 AM -0400 9/12/01, afbrown at bellatlantic.net wrote:
> >A great deal more the cellulars are monitored
> >Specifically all outbound domectic traffic with an international IP 
> >address and all inbound
> >traffic from abroard is parsed for key words and phases.
> >
> >Jonathan Wienke wrote:
> >
> >>  ABC news anchor Peter Jennings just said that the NSA is going 
> >>through their recordings of cellular phone calls to see if they can 
> >>find other cellular calls similar to the one from Ted Olson's wife 
> >>who was on the plane that crashed into the Pentagon.
> 
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