Ok let me make sure I understand:
"Law enforcement's current electronic surveillance capabilities are less effective today than they were at the time CALEA was enacted."
I'm cool with this. Big Brother is getting less info.
The illegal monitoring may have resulted in the deaths of several informants and reportedly spoiled planned anti-drug raids on crime syndicates.
I'm cool with this too. Informants are scum and drugs should be legal.
let's look at the article a little bit more closely.
the Russians don't need it anymore. They've scraped together a cheaper, more effective monitoring system. Is the Israeli company an element of that system? I don't know,"
The Russians? Their country is pretty much third world. Hardly a threat. And we "don't know" if this system is part of it. And the guy who said that is a vendor who would sell better equipment to the government.
"With all the whining and crying about Echelon and Carnivore, critics, domestic and foreign, of U.S. electronic eavesdropping vastly overestimate our abilities to process and disseminate the stuff," noted Brown.
yes. let's ignore the fact that the government has programs that can intercept our emails and read them all. Instead, let's focus the attention on the fact that big brother needs MORE resources to look after us.
And so on, and so on. whether this is true or not, this is just more propagnda telling us: we are not safe. We need better resources and renewed energy into wiretaps and surveillance and intelligence gathering to make us safer.