Didn't hear a squeak out of any of you when Clinton was doing the very same thing in regards to wiretaps and surveillance for 8 years. When the WH obtained illegal FBI files on all republicans, no cries of foul about invasions of privacy, or screams of where this would lead.

Ruby Ridge, Waco Texas and Elian Gonzalez are just a few examples of the Clinton Justice Department's legacy of denying people not only their civil rights but their very lives; yet not a peep from you. So it's ok to kill innocent men, women and children in our own country if a liberal commits the act. (Stop and ponder these atrocities before you all go into your "but Bush lied and people died" mantra.)

Grow up and stop with the double standard.

Pretty short answer to a pretty serious question. Tony is obviously a Dodger.

If what Brian Ross and his team is reporting here and on Reliable Sources this morning about reporters phone records being obtained by the FBI is true, and there is no reason to doubt that it is, it has absoluting nothing to do with foreign international counter terrorism and everything to do with violating the first and fourth amendments to the Constitution. How can this adminstration violate the very rights that they are claiming to promote around the world? Maybe we have more in common with China than so called free trade. This is not a rose by any other name it is something rotten in Denmark.

Think about it!

If you are concerned about a bank being robbed you don't tap and follow everyone in town. You secure the dang bank!

This is an excuse to control thought and information. If the objective was truly security there are many other things we should be doing, and we aren't!

BE SMART FOLKS!

I am not sure why we, American citizens have not called for impeachment of the current sitting president. Is everyone afraid to say the word?
It is people that think this administration is open and truthful that continue to support the policies that the Bush administration is shoving down our throats. Any one that is able to logically think knows that there are too many secrets and underhanded things being done by the White House, Congressmen and Senators.
As Americans we need to speak out and tell our representatives that we are no longer going to tollerate our civil liberties destroyed. We are no longer accepting our privacy being breached and we no longer wnat our military in a place that we never should have gone into in the first place. This president has led up into a needless war, has allowed our freedom to be breached and on top of all this wants to make ILLEGAL aliens LEGAL..I feel like the US has become a 3rd World Country.
I don't think the Bush administration knows what the defination of legal and law is.

Someone that has the ability to reach the masses of Americans needs to grow a backbone and start speaking out against the issues here in this country.

It is not what the Bush adminstration is doing, but rather how they are doing it. I don't doubt that obtaining certain phone records is a very plausible tool, but my understanding is that there is a procedure, a legal procedure, for doing so. Why does the Bush administration insist on not following established procedures?

Protection for the media under the Whistle-Blower statues?

Other similiar statues?

Of course the government is tapping the Americans phones. How else can they keep tabs on those who might wise up and see the truth. Or worse yet try to do something about it. The truth is that the USA is under major invasion by several countries. Some are here to destroy and/or to conquer taking over this country. Why would the government want to hide that from us...or to water it down as hype? Because the government is lining their pockets. They know that we are under invasion and what are they doing to save America? ZERO

I, Mark Ferrell, under provisions of the Constitition of the Untied States of America, do hereby wish to arrest George W. Bush. For Violations of the United States Constitution, for violations of his Oath as President to DEFEND and Protect The United States Constituition and it's Citizens. I call Him a Liar and A Criminal and wish to arrest him immediately. Anyone got gas money for the trip to D.C. ?

Wow. I thought this was Aljazeer.

What do you people have to hide? FBI/NSA can listen in on my phone conversations (BTW: read Puzzle Palace. They been doing it since the 60s) . I'm not doing anything illegal do anything I need to be ashamed of. If soneone at the house of worship down the road from me is planning something I want the FBI/NSA to know. But wait... Isn’t that Profiling. We can't do that; better “listen in on everyone” or ACLU will complain.
But wait. we can't do that either.

You have a choice:
1) Loose what you believe to be a right to use a cell phone.
2) Loose your life so someone can talk on the cell phone while planning the next 911. Rights can be “recovered”. (For those of you who remember WWII you know that German's and Japanese could not speak up againt US goverment after we entered the war) Your Life can’t (except in certain religions).

BTW: Last night I ran into a police “sobriety checkpoint”. Good thing I had my “Papers” with me. Stats: 305 cars pulled over: 1 OUI , and 10 people with seatbelt/no-drivers license/no insurance papers. Reminded me of Mother Russia… “Where are your Papers, where have you been, where are you going… and pull over for Inspection.”

The sad truth is, that while we pit our favorite political parties against each other...these same political parties are stealing our country blind and trashing our constitution in the process.