From: "Phil Payne" 

"Jeff Shultz"  wrote in message
news:pan.2005.12.17.06.07.15.145154{at}shultzinfosystems.com...
> On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 17:11:33 -0500, Rich Gauszka wrote:
>
> > http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=1413121
> >
> > But some NSA officials were so concerned about the legality of the
program
> > that they refused to participate, the Times said. Questions about the
> > legality of the program led the administration to temporarily suspend it
> > last year and impose new restrictions.
> >
> >
>
> "some NSA officials" - I'd love to know positions and paygrades. It's
> possible that the original instructions were written a bit more loosely
> than some were comfortable with - nobody at NSA expects common sense to be
> a common virtue, unlike some people. So they tightened things up...and it
> appears to have been a great success.

One possibility is that some NSA people rebelled not at the concept but at
specific use.  Was Jesse Jackson one of those monitored?

Was the capability used EXCLUSIVELY to evaluate the use of the
numbers/addresses/details captured in Afghanistan and elsewhere, or was it
also used to track anti-war campaigners?

Like I said, if anyone like that was on the list, the fact will eventually come out.

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