The scale of warrantless surveillance, and the high proportion of bystanders swept in, sheds new light on Bush's circumvention of the courts. National security lawyers, in and out of government, said the washout rate raised fresh doubts about the program's lawfulness under the Fourth Amendment,because a search cannot be judged "reasonable" if it is based on evidencethat experience shows to be unreliable.While I appreciated a need to work on some approach to connect the “degrees of separation” it does seem that this approach is far too intrusive and certainly very ineffective to justify. The reporting ends with Jeff Jonas, now chief scientist at IBM Entity Analytics, who invented a data-mining technology used widely in the private sector and by the government stating, “so far from reaching the level of accuracy that's necessary that I see them as nothing but civil liberty infringement engines.”
Georgia10 at Kos has a nice take on this for Abu Gonzales as he prepares to fake (not a typo) the Senate at hearing tomorrow.
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