[Originally published at Corrente.] Some of the technical detail won't seem technical at all to this audience, but in general people need the full disclosure.
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[Originally published at Corrente.]
Long story short: (1) Internet surveillance is Bush's goal, not voice calls; (2) the Republican "wiretap" talking point is a diversion, to voice, away from from Internet surveillance; (3) Bush's domestic surveillance system would pose no engineering challenges whatever to NSA. No rocket science--or tinfoil hats--required.
It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster. - Voltaire