Malkin: Pro-Spying? How about yourself?
Michelle Malkin has a long-winded post defending Bush's domestic spying. Summary: "It's OK to spy on a U.S. Citizen if they call someone who lives near where a terrorist might live."
She offers a few ways to 'get around' the FISA laws (based on her non-expert interpretation) including these helpful tips: do the spying on foreign soil, give the information to a non-U.S. intel agency, and with impeccable logic, if the U.S. government spies on more people, they can avoid being illegal. Wow.
The kicker though is this:
So, I pose this question to Ms. Malkin: Assuming you have family in South Asia, would you find it acceptable for the U.S. government to capture your conversations, render them to a foreign government (say, France?) and allow them to keep records of your calling habits including who and when you call? Could they use 'a computer to check for names, numbers, and words that have been identified as suspicious' in your conversations with your Aunts and Uncles?
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* I am in no way implying that all or some of Indonesian Muslims should be targets of spying based solely on their religion. I am basing my logic on Ms. MalkinÂs support for racial/religious profiling as defined in her book, ÂIn defense of Interment where she advocates the U.S. government imprisoning Muslims of Arab ancestry in response to 9/11 similar to what was done to Japanese-Americans after Pearl Harbor.
She offers a few ways to 'get around' the FISA laws (based on her non-expert interpretation) including these helpful tips: do the spying on foreign soil, give the information to a non-U.S. intel agency, and with impeccable logic, if the U.S. government spies on more people, they can avoid being illegal. Wow.
The kicker though is this:
If the NSA surveillance program tracks all international communications (or all international communications to al Qaeda hotspots such as Afghanistan), it does not target specific individuals as required by 1801(f)(1).Ms. Malkin is of Philippine descent. That makes her 'South Asian' which is home to over 30% of the globe's Islamic population. Indonesia is the most populous country with a Muslim majority.*
So, I pose this question to Ms. Malkin: Assuming you have family in South Asia, would you find it acceptable for the U.S. government to capture your conversations, render them to a foreign government (say, France?) and allow them to keep records of your calling habits including who and when you call? Could they use 'a computer to check for names, numbers, and words that have been identified as suspicious' in your conversations with your Aunts and Uncles?
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* I am in no way implying that all or some of Indonesian Muslims should be targets of spying based solely on their religion. I am basing my logic on Ms. MalkinÂs support for racial/religious profiling as defined in her book, ÂIn defense of Interment where she advocates the U.S. government imprisoning Muslims of Arab ancestry in response to 9/11 similar to what was done to Japanese-Americans after Pearl Harbor.
posted by zerohundred @ 5:22 PM
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