Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Getting Tuff on Terror...

...actually means "seeming tough on terror." Skippy details a billion dollar boondoggle that was supposed to sift electronic communication, suposedly looking for adjunt key phrases like "nooclear," "bum," and "houston." Bottom line:

skippy the bush kangaroo: "that means the government has been standing by while the agency has been gradually 'going deaf' as unimportant communications drown out key pieces of information, a government official with extensive knowledge of trailblazer told the sun."

Wouldn't it be a heckuva lot more efficient to listen in on, say, people who just flew in from Iran, rather than on Quaker peace groups? Or, is that just too rational? Guess it's better to listen in on everyone and hear nothing.

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