It’s Q & A Monday…
…I guess…Kevin Drum adopts the format to examine the Washington Post article on the NSA program that ran yesterday, with a focus on the technical aspects:
The article combines information specifically about the warrantless wiretap program with public information about general NSA capabilities in a way that’s hard to tease apart. The most likely short explanation, I think, is that NSA has created patterns of possible terrorist activity and is actively mining communications metadata from domestic calls to find targets that fit those patterns. Data mining of the content of domestic calls may also be involved, though that’s less clear.
Don’t feel bad, Kevin, we’re all confused…
An interesting column today from the New York Post (which I read about once a year), but this is from Debra Burlingame:
http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/62988.htm
I hadn’t heard about the NBC report she references here – it raises an interesting point.