Update: CBS is trying trivialize the threat because the Key players were not in the US – yet. But as I live blogged the press conference, the next stage of the plan was to surveillance the targets and acquire the materials. You do not do that from overseas. That means the FBI or others had […]

Bill Keller of the NY Times and Deab Baquett of the LA Times must be feeling some heat over their crippling of our national defenses against terrorism. They have writtent a defense of their paranoid delusions in the NY Times today. As I believe Andrew McCarthy pointed out early on, the US military capability is […]

It seems our defunct news media cannot resist the need to go blabbing to everyone and anyone details about the NSA Terrorist Surveillance Program which the NY Times/Risen inaccurately exposed last December. Recall they originally claimed the NSA was bypassing FISA and spying on Americans, when it turns out the NSA was not bypassing FISA […]

As I pointed out with the Toronto raid on the terrorist cell there, it is highly possible the entire effort was detected using the NSA’s Terrorist Surveillance program, and when two US citizens allied themselves with the terrorists, they were brought into the FISA process (here and here).  Senator Specter seems to want to have […]

Michelle Malkin has the sealed court affadavit on the two US suspects associated with the Toronto raid, including mention of court-ordered surveillance. Snippets indicate NSA and FISA participation (given their well known missions and responsibilities in fighting terrorism) in the monitoring of the two US citizens and the Canadians now in custody: I am a […]

Are we a nation afraid of ourselves, or one ready to protect ourselves? In the NSA-FISA battle there are two sides – the paranoid delusionists on the left and the Realists spread across the rest of the populace. Today we get to see the two sides in stark contrast in response to the Toronto raids […]

*** Updates at end *** The media and left in this country have to face some hard facts. The arrests in a major terrorist effort in Canada illustrate why the NSA must do what it does, and why FISA can play a role when things get to a certain spot. Because make no mistake, we […]

An obviously liberal judge is attempting to open up our national secrets and defenses to our enemies: The American Civil Liberties Union in Detroit and the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York filed lawsuits against the program in January, saying it violates Americans’ rights to free speech and to privacy. In March, the plaintiffs […]

It appears the NSA’s phone pattern database was possibly part of a warranted surveillance, according to a story Captain Ed Morrissey posted on: Two judges on the secretive court that approves warrants for intelligence surveillance were told of the broad monitoring programs that have raised recent controversy, a Republican senator said Tuesday, connecting a court […]

Newt Gringrich just started his interview on Meet The Press by asying (a) everything the NSA has done to date is legal [good], and (b) Bush failed to tell the American people in advance what he was doing [dumb as a rock]. Earth to Newt, the reason we don’t explain the details of what we […]