Insider info on the NSA’s wiretapping practices. (Does this make you mad, Part 3)

Thanks to a post on Digg.com, I have just finished reading an article in the New Yorker by Seymour M. Hersch about the NSA’s wiretapping practices. The article is about a chat he had with a recently retired NSA official, and exposes some very interesting information.

Sadly, this illegal and immoral surveillance has been going on a for a long time indeed. It turns out that back in the ’70’s, the NSA was intercepting telegrams coming in and going out of the United States and abusing power in other ways as well. The congressional hearing about that were exactly where the FISA court came from. As has been the status quo with Bush Administration II, history repeats itself.

I know that I asked in my past blog about this if this made you mad enough to do something about this. I think that after reading this article, you’ll be pretty charged up. Give it a read, it is eye-opening to say the least.