Age of Terrorism

Fri, 10 Feb 2006 01:04:19 GMT

Our government's reaction to terrorists has comprimised our privacy. The CIA has an incredible system that harvests foreign communications. Voice, data, and correspondence is packed into enormous databases. This information is then translated into searchable data that is queried for answers. Where will the next terrorist attack be? Who is a terrorist? Who knows the terrorists? It is illegal for the CIA to monitor national communications. So what does it mean when President Bush authorized wire-tapping in search of terrorists. What does the Patriot Act entail. It is quite possible that your post 9/11 telephone conversations are now stored in the CIA's databases. A time stamp, your phone number, who you called, the voice recording, and a computer text translation has been recorded. When they talk about wire tapping we all assume they are listening in on six or seven guys who seem like terrorists, but the likely reality is that they can do a keyword search on many of our past phone calls, emails, and other private communications.

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Age of Terrorism