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Watch the video at the end of the article.

• mehwoot 13y ago
  He says "No digital communication is secure" (this is obviously an embellishment; this is trivial to show unless the U.S. government has broken every major encryption scheme), "and so these communications will be found out". He does not specifically say these phone calls will be found out. He could very well be referring simply to the ability for FISA requests to receive information about an individual that has been stored by companies like facebook, google, etc. The interviewer's question was "And you're not talking about a voicemail, right?" It is not clear in any way that he is saying the government has recorded all phone calls and can go back and listen to them. Additionally, sources tell CNN the wife of Tamerlan Tsarnaev spoke with her husband on the phone after his pictures and video appeared around the country as the prime suspect. If this was after he was already named as the prime suspect, you are telling me they didn't have a traditional wiretap on him and his relatives at that point? Btw the transcript linked in the article (http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1305/01/ebo.01.html http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1305/01/ebo.01.html) and the video don't match up, so it is hard to get context.
  • vixen99 13y ago
    It's not clear that the government has recorded all telephone calls? This interviewee says "All digital communications are ....are..." and uncharacteristically hesitates. Evidently he doesn't want to complete that sentence. So he tries again: "There's a way to look at digital communications in the past and I can't go into details." No need to - it's called 'recording the entire communication'.
    • kps 13y ago
      Nah, they have a machine that can see into the past[1]. [1] Asimov, I. The Dead Past, 1956.