As part of this whole issue, just want to remind everyone here that Glenn Greenwald, the UK Guardian reporter who wrote the article, is a left-wing nut. While his article has opened questions about this info gathering under Dear Leader's administration, I wouldn't be surprised that his aim (and those of other LW quacks) is to undermine political support for America's anti-terror efforts. IOW, he and other hate-America types will be saying "See, now in the effort to protect ourselves from attack, we've got a gov't that will spy on us."
All I'm saying is when it comes to these things, I think we all realize there's a right way and a wrong way to go about monitoring phone calls of those who mean us harm. The libs would rather we not try at all.
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