DAILY DIALECTIC
December 30, 2008
"Barack Obama will be in charge of the biggest domestic and international spying operation in history... 'The NSA's colossal Cray supercomputer, code-named the 'Black Widow,' scans millions of domestic and international phone calls and e-mails every hour... The Black Widow, performing hundreds of trillions of calculations per second, searches through and reassembles key words and patterns, across many languages... The government [is now permitted] to conduct intrusive surveillance without ever telling a court who it intends to spy on, what phone lines and e-mail addresses it intends to monitor, where its surveillance targets are located, why it's conducting the surveillance or whether it suspects any party to the communication of wrongdoing...'"