Russell Tice Confirms Everything We’ve Surmised About Bush’s Illegal Wiretap ProgramBy: emptywheel Thursday January 22, 2009 7:09 am |
Teddy linked to the stunning Russell Tice appearance on Keith O tonight. I wanted to add a few points.
First, Tice's description of the program confirms everything we have surmised about the program. The program:
- Established the means to collect all American communications
- Analyzed meta-data to select a smaller subset of communications to tap further
- Conducted human analysis of those messages
That is, the Bush administration used meta-data (things like length of phone call that have nothing to do with terrorism) to pick which communications to actually open and read, and then they opened and read them.
And of course, everyone's communications--everyone's--were included in the totality of communications that might be tapped.
Including--especially--journalists. We knew that both Christiane Amanpour and Lawrence Wright's communications were tapped. Well, apparently so were every other journalists'.
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