wiretapping

I mentioned the false claims being made about the Obama administration by many of the teabaggers and related crazies to a man I met tonight and he went off on some CT claim that Obama initiated "an unprecedented" action calling for citizens to report on subversives via the internet. What? Was...

I just read about the latest decision regarding the warrantless Wiretapping documents at MSNBC: Spy court won't release eavesdropping docs Finds public has no right to view documents on warrantless wiretapping Now taking the thousands of probable Terrorists within and beyond the US Borders...

Someone beat me to this. So please ignore this thread.

Are we really getting closer to the McCarthy era or are these all media fits like the domestic spying (wiretapping) program issue where the media throws a fit, congress reacts by expressing outrage, no real investigation is done, and finally some congressional committee slaps the president on...

I'm sorry if this is too obvious or has been addressed in another thread. I am thinking, aren't terrorists going to use codes and encryptions in any of their messages anyway? It seems to me, the only info the government is going to be able to understand is from people who have nothing to do...

Oops, I guess he isn't. I'm not a big fan of patriot act conspiracy theories, those based on "what if this power is abused". But if you read some of the anti-bush news sites, you get the feeling that Ashcroft is big brother. The numbers tell a different tale. Now, I assume the numbers were...