A lot of people have been wondering what our friends on the right have been saying about the whole NSA spying issue. Here is one example from the USA Today comment site:
Once again the Mainstream Media is willing to sell national secrets in order to reveal classified secrets. This article is timed strictly to try to prevent Gen Hayden from becoming Director of the CIA. His picture is prominently featured all over the place.
It is impossible to believe that a liberally biased reporter can honestly expect us to believe that he or she is qualified in Naitonal Intelligence matters. So, his or her opinion of this program means absolutely nothing at all.
I hope that the Attorney General finally gets around to prosecuting all of these reporters that are committing treason by revealing classified secrets. Thank you USA Today for giving our enemies details about how we track them down. You have reminded all of us just how vile and disgusting the people at USA Today really are.
Posted by: Bill Jackman
I have to say that I am right there with Bill on this one and I penned my support for his position.
You can read my letter below ...
My response TO Bill Jackman
(first letter on the thread)
I am with you Bill. Shame on USA Today. The terrorists never, never, and I mean never suspected we were going to try and find them, tap their phones, or surveil them in any matter. They are shocked, shocked I tell you, that we even had the capabilities of doing such a thing.
Now I know what a lot of you who are reading this are thinking, "Mike, you idiot these guys plotted and bombed one of the world's great superpowers, and their main leader has avoided capture for over five years." Yeah, well what's your point. "Well the point is that if they are smart enough to have done that, I would have assumed that they would probably be smart enough to think that we would try and catch them by going after their communications systems; and perhaps think the fact that we are using techniques to try and find them is a given." And that is what makes you another gullible wrong thinking (LIBERAL) American.
Let me fill you in on a little secret. These guys never thought that. They were yakking it up on the phones, talking loud in crowded diners, sending messages via megaphone...doing all sorts of things until they started reading in the local newspaper about the sources and methods we were going to use to catch them. Yes, USA Today has blown the cover off this whole thing and we are back to having to use boots on the ground gathering human intelligence to catch them, instead of being able to leisurely sift through trillions of bits of information to "flag" the enemy.
"But why do we have to surveil innocent Americans" one asks? Man, you really are simple minded aren't you? To keep the enemy off balance you knucklehead.
You see, it is kind of like this teacher I had one time in grade school. He had a gotch eye. We never could really tell where he was looking because he seemed to be looking everywhere. No matter that he couldn't really see ANYTHING; he appeared to be looking at EVERYONE all the time. Kept us on our toes. That is what we are doing with this World Wide War against extremist jihadists formerly know as the War on Terror. If we look ONLY for them, then they will know WHO we are looking for, and WHERE we are looking. But, if we look at ALL Americans as if they are jihadists then they will NEVER know if we are really looking at them or not. Just like my gotch-eyed teacher. Can't you see the brilliance of this strategy? And now USA Today has gone and exposed one of the most forward leaning terror fighting tactics of our time. I just can't believe it. Not to mention that in doing so they have also turned up the pesky fact that the Government is looking at Ordinary Americans as part of this brilliant strategy, and that quite a few Americans don't like it. I can certainly tell you that the terrorists never saw that one coming! So Bill I am right there with ya brother. Let's lock up these punk journalists so we can get about the business of fighting these Terrorists.