[fintstone]

I don't understand. How can you answer this:

How is this worse than the hundreds of FBI records the Clintons got on their opponents?..or Schumer's illegally getting his opponent's credit records? Both actions were defended by liberals on this BBS.

I guess it is okay when used for partisan politics...but not national defense? As always with liberals...the end justifies the means...and the rules only apply to others

with this:?????????????????????????????

Originally posted by Rodeo
Flint, you are off your rocker. Way off.

I'm really surprised that this got so little attention. I feel like chicken little, but to me this is as threatening as the government can get.

The most basic right in our country is the right to be left alone. For the last 200 years, the only way the government could invade that right was upon a warrant signed by a judge, after demonstrating probable cause that a crime had been committed.

Now the government can invade our most private information if some FBI field officer basically feels like it, and we will never know. Then he or she can deposit the fruits of that invasion in some data base to be shared with "private sector entities."

I thought we were fighting Islamic radicalism to preserve our freedoms?

If you had not addressed me by name, I would have thought you were answering someone else. Do you even read the posts of others that you respond to????????