I heard an interesting and partly reassuring conversation on NPR this afternoon. The USA Today reporter who had broken the NSA phone record story as well as retired Admiral Bobby Ray Inman. Inman was once the Director of the National Security Agency. My recollection is that he was working hard on developing the NSA’s computers.
Inman agreed that it was troubling that the Bush Administration seemed to be so unwilling to seek Congress’s help in crafting some sensible restrictions on the NSA’s intelligence gathering of phone calls. On the other hand, he said the ability of the NSA to keep track of conversations was all but nonexistant.
