Aaron Kleins WABC Radio show experienced what the host called a tech meltdown while he was conducting a live, on-air interview with the lawyer who won an injunction against the National Security Agencys collection of phone records.
Software used by the radio station dropped the guest, Larry Klayman, and listeners who had called in to ask Klayman questions were cut off in mid-sentence. Other callers could not be put on the air due to technical difficulties at the radio station.
Audio clips saved on an independent system played at the wrong time.
Kleins headphones had massive feedback that could be heard on the air.
At one point, the WABC call screener said, We lost control of the software. Its all going nuts.
The technical difficulties started on the show about 10 minutes prior to the Klayman interview. They subsided following the two segments that featured Klayman.
In my three years of broadcasting at WABC we never had such a technological meltdown as we are having today, Klein told the audience.
He continued: Calls are dropping. We cant get the guests on. Once the guests are on they are dropping. Weve had several meltdowns. Feedback from the microphone. I can barely broadcast.
However we are going to land this airplane and were going to have fun doing it.
During the interview, Klayman called NSA data collection the worst violation of constitutional rights in American history.
Klayman founded the legal watchdog groups Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch.
He claimed: Whats most dangerous about what is going on is the fact that every time someone picks up their phone, or sends an email, or goes to social media like Facebook, or uses Skype, they now know that the government is watching. And this keeps us from being critical of the government.
And thats not just un-American, its like the former Soviet Union or China.
He continued: If our Founding Fathers had lived in these times, and if King George III had had an NSA with that kind of technological capability, the Founding Fathers would have been picked up, arrested and executed before they ever got to Philadelphia to sign the Declaration of Independence.
We live in what the judge said, and I used the term, too, when I appeared in front of him, an Orwellian state.
Asked by WND whether he thinks the technical problems were related to Klayman, Klein said, I have no idea but my guess is that I dont think so. Its probably just a coincidence. Lets not get paranoid.
Klayman has done scores of other interviews and none of those outlets reported experiencing any problems. He didnt say anything more extreme on my show. So even if we are going to get imaginative, it wouldnt make any sense to try to sabotage or jam this one show.
Still, the tech problems were quite out of the ordinary.
Klein said the show before him also had a problem, with the host temporarily unable to connect to the studio from a remote location. That issue, however, is not a******l. The technical glitches experienced during Kleins show were far more drastic.
It wouldnt be logical for the NSA to target my show, Klein said, pointing out he has aired numerous broadcasts questioning the loyalties of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Other broadcasts investigated what Klein described as the anti-American leanings of former Guardian reporter Glenn Greenwald, who has been serving as a conduit for Snowden to communicate to the public.
I think Snowden is being used in a big way to turn Americans against the NSA, said Klein. The whole Snowden story stinks.
During the WABC interview, Klein challenged Klayman about whether his lawsuit could harm national security.
Klein asked: Isnt it understandable that lets say they are tracing a terrorist today who they didnt know about last week or the week before. Lets say this terrorist is about to carry out an attack on the United States. What about the argument from the NSA, and I can kind of understand this, that since they didnt know who he was, they therefore need to collect everyones metadata but they are not going to go through it, they say.
So that this way they can now, if they have this terrorist that they are looking at in particular, trace back his metadata because they saved it and then look at his connections, look at his phone calls, look at his bank t***sactions. Do you agree that there are possibly some circumstances where maybe this is good for national security?
Klayman replied: Certainly, no one is saying that its not. But you cant abuse it. The Patriot Act, and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which themselves have problems
they basically say you have to have a suspect under investigation and that suspect, if its a domestic citizen, has to have some contact with a foreign terrorist source. And as long as you gave that nexus, his lawyers say, then thats fine. But what the NSA has been doing is gathering the metadata on all citizens.
ldsuttonjr wrote:
He continued: If our Founding Fathers had lived in these times, and if King George III had had an NSA with that kind of technological capability, the Founding Fathers would have been picked up, arrested and executed before they ever got to Philadelphia to sign the Declaration of Independence.
We live in what the judge said, and I used the term, too, when I appeared in front of him, an Orwellian state.
I think he had the founding fathers all wrong. If our Founding Fathers had lived in these times, and if King George III had had an NSA with that kind of technological capability, the Founding Fathers would have taken significant action to stop the snooping, and added that kind of Government intrusion to the list of justifications for revolution. Like the Tea Party incident in Boston, I suspect they would have snuck into the storage facility and thrown all the equipment out the windows and burned the building and the information it contained. If King George could have picked them up, arrested and executed them before they ever got to Philadelphia to sign the Declaration of Independence, he would have done it for the rebellious acts that are recorded in American History. The t***h is that the founders stood up to the tyranny of George, and tossed him out, and they risked everything they had, and most lost everything they had to accomplish it. They would have been in league with Edward Snowden and they would have rallied behind Edward Snowden to throw off the oppresive and invasive tactics of this overreaching Government oppression.
And if some were picked up, arrested, and executed, others would fill their shoes, and the revolution would continue until they won the victory. History proves this to be the real t***h of what would happen if the founders lived today.
ldsuttonjr wrote:
Aaron Kleins WABC Radio show experienced what the host called a tech meltdown while he was conducting a live, on-air interview with the lawyer who won an injunction against the National Security Agencys collection of phone records.
Software used by the radio station dropped the guest, Larry Klayman, and listeners who had called in to ask Klayman questions were cut off in mid-sentence. Other callers could not be put on the air due to technical difficulties at the radio station.
Audio clips saved on an independent system played at the wrong time.
Kleins headphones had massive feedback that could be heard on the air.
At one point, the WABC call screener said, We lost control of the software. Its all going nuts.
The technical difficulties started on the show about 10 minutes prior to the Klayman interview. They subsided following the two segments that featured Klayman.
In my three years of broadcasting at WABC we never had such a technological meltdown as we are having today, Klein told the audience.
He continued: Calls are dropping. We cant get the guests on. Once the guests are on they are dropping. Weve had several meltdowns. Feedback from the microphone. I can barely broadcast.
However we are going to land this airplane and were going to have fun doing it.
During the interview, Klayman called NSA data collection the worst violation of constitutional rights in American history.
Klayman founded the legal watchdog groups Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch.
He claimed: Whats most dangerous about what is going on is the fact that every time someone picks up their phone, or sends an email, or goes to social media like Facebook, or uses Skype, they now know that the government is watching. And this keeps us from being critical of the government.
And thats not just un-American, its like the former Soviet Union or China.
He continued: If our Founding Fathers had lived in these times, and if King George III had had an NSA with that kind of technological capability, the Founding Fathers would have been picked up, arrested and executed before they ever got to Philadelphia to sign the Declaration of Independence.
We live in what the judge said, and I used the term, too, when I appeared in front of him, an Orwellian state.
Asked by WND whether he thinks the technical problems were related to Klayman, Klein said, I have no idea but my guess is that I dont think so. Its probably just a coincidence. Lets not get paranoid.
Klayman has done scores of other interviews and none of those outlets reported experiencing any problems. He didnt say anything more extreme on my show. So even if we are going to get imaginative, it wouldnt make any sense to try to sabotage or jam this one show.
Still, the tech problems were quite out of the ordinary.
Klein said the show before him also had a problem, with the host temporarily unable to connect to the studio from a remote location. That issue, however, is not a******l. The technical glitches experienced during Kleins show were far more drastic.
It wouldnt be logical for the NSA to target my show, Klein said, pointing out he has aired numerous broadcasts questioning the loyalties of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Other broadcasts investigated what Klein described as the anti-American leanings of former Guardian reporter Glenn Greenwald, who has been serving as a conduit for Snowden to communicate to the public.
I think Snowden is being used in a big way to turn Americans against the NSA, said Klein. The whole Snowden story stinks.
During the WABC interview, Klein challenged Klayman about whether his lawsuit could harm national security.
Klein asked: Isnt it understandable that lets say they are tracing a terrorist today who they didnt know about last week or the week before. Lets say this terrorist is about to carry out an attack on the United States. What about the argument from the NSA, and I can kind of understand this, that since they didnt know who he was, they therefore need to collect everyones metadata but they are not going to go through it, they say.
So that this way they can now, if they have this terrorist that they are looking at in particular, trace back his metadata because they saved it and then look at his connections, look at his phone calls, look at his bank t***sactions. Do you agree that there are possibly some circumstances where maybe this is good for national security?
Klayman replied: Certainly, no one is saying that its not. But you cant abuse it. The Patriot Act, and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which themselves have problems
they basically say you have to have a suspect under investigation and that suspect, if its a domestic citizen, has to have some contact with a foreign terrorist source. And as long as you gave that nexus, his lawyers say, then thats fine. But what the NSA has been doing is gathering the metadata on all citizens.
Aaron Kleins WABC Radio show experienced what the... (
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Let me share something with you. The Military and the NSA can back door your computer or anything that is hook up to the internet, they can take over control. They can look at all your files and delete them if necessary or wipe out your computer all together. Anything that hooks up to the internet has a special code where the Government can enter.
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Let me share something with you. The Military and the NSA can back door your computer or anything that is hook up to the internet, they can take over control. They can look at all your files and delete them if necessary or wipe out your computer all together. Anything that hooks up to the internet has a special code where the Government can enter.
V**emoobana: That is the reason I use a liberal democrat's computer!
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