While the MSM is beating the dead horse of Democrat calls for Congressional hearings and investigations into the NSA wiretap program, they are completely ignoring a significant development in the world of wiretapping.
Italian authorities recently announced that they had used wiretaps to uncover the conspiracy to conduct a series of major attacks inside the U.S.Italian Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu said the planned attacks would have targeted stadiums, ships and railway stations, and the terrorists’ goal, he said, was to exceed the devastation caused by 9/11.
Italian authorities stepped up their internal surveillance programs after July’s terrorist bombings in London. Their domestic wiretaps picked up phone conversations by Algerian Yamine Bouhrama that discussed terrorist attacks in Italy and abroad.
Of course, this wasn’t the first time Italy successfully used wiretapping to catch terrorists plotting mayhem.
Now just imagine what we might miss if Democrats get their way on this issue.
