Oh Yeah, How'd I Forget This... Alarmist = Nostradamus

OK, so, the people Ben Franklin warned us about (the people who are willing to give up some freedom to gain some temporary security and therefore deserve neither) have been getting all angry about the 'alarmists' who are worried about the warrantlesss spying policy. 'I Got Nuthin' To Hide, So's I Ain't Worried'.

'Yet'... (as our [goes to] Twelve Step friends might say).

"And it's just phones....."

Not.

How about this from US News And World Report? (which also answers the NPR listener question 'whatever Happened to Chitra Ragavan?):

In the dark days after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, a small group of lawyers from the White House and the Justice Department began meeting to debate a number of novel legal strategies to help prevent another attack. Soon after, President Bush authorized the National Security Agency to begin conducting electronic eavesdropping on terrorism suspects in the United States, including American citizens, without court approval. Meeting in the FBI's state-of-the-art command center in the J. Edgar Hoover Building, the lawyers talked with senior FBI officials about using the same legal authority to conduct physical searches of homes and businesses of terrorism suspects--also without court approval, one current and one former government official tell U.S. News.

"There was a fair amount of discussion at Justice on the warrantless physical search issue," says a former senior FBI official. "Discussions about--if [the searches]happened--where would the information go, and would it taint cases."

FBI Director Robert Mueller was alarmed by the proposal, the two
officials said, and pushed back hard against it. ...

This IS why we fought a revolution. To Stop This.

The Terrorists Are Winning.

Must Read Here. Then write your Senator, and Arlen Specter while you're at it.