Wow, amazing. Knowing that they can be legally wiretapped, the mafia still get caught by law enforcement. In other words, no double-super-secret tradeoff between liberty and security appears to exist, even for the most vexing 'networks':
February 7, 2008 In a trans-Atlantic takedown considered the biggest offensive in the government's assault on the mob in two decades, dozens of members of the Gambino crime family hierarchy were arrested Thursday, dealing the wiseguys a staggering blow. ...
The evidence, authorities said, is damning, with a wired informant capturing hundreds of hours of conversations with high-ranking members of the family, talking about murders, construction rackets and looting union funds.
So, remind me why we need a double-super-secret program to monitor "the terrorists".
Why can't Administration officials just say what they want to do? If they want to monitor every call in-and-out of Pakistan, why don't they suggest it, so that people can come up with ways to curb abuses of the same and monitor the effectiveness of the programs, so we know that they are not running amok or creating taxpayer dead-weight in pursuit of ideological talking-points?
