get a warrant

it's EASY. what the f**k is the problem here? better yet, if you want to read MY emails (and they do at work by the way. they keep them on file - has to do with nasd or something or other. please don't even get me started on what we have to do for the PATRIOT ACT. i work in the insurance/financial industry. if you only knew the kinds of problems and the work - YES I PERSONALLY HAD TO DO- the patriot act caused. you'd tap me on the shoulder and say, 'there there a rose is a rose. is there anything i can do?) ASK ME. if i'm in a decent enough mood (ok ok, that's rare), you never know. i MAY say oui. then again, i may not. GET A WARRANT

oh and one more thing. i'm NOT a terrorist or a spy or a traitor or an ugly american. i do NOT cheat on my taxes (really), i don't steal. i try not to lie and i'm watching out for both my elderly father AND my elderly landlord.
Lawsuits May Illuminate Methods of Spy Program


By Dan Eggen Washington Post Staff Writer

In 2003, Room 641A of a large telecommunications building in downtown San Francisco was filled with powerful data-mining equipment for a "special job" by the National Security Agency, according to a former AT&T technician. It was fed by fiber-optic cables that siphoned copies of e-mails and other online traffic from one of the largest Internet hubs in the United States, the former employee says in court filings.
What occurred in the room is now at the center of a pivotal legal battle in a federal appeals court over the Bush administration's controversial spying program, including the monitoring that came to be publicly known as the Terrorist Surveillance Program..........

i'm confused (once again)

isn't one of the republican platforms, LESS government interference? LESS government period?

not only isn't there LESS government, there is an administration that has shredded our constitution. rights? WE DON'T HAVE OR NEED ANY STINKIN' RIGHTS!!! (or liberties or freedoms either)

NSA Spying Part of Broader Effort
Intelligence Chief Says Bush Authorized Secret Activities Under One Order


By Dan Eggen Washington Post Staff Writer

The Bush administration's chief intelligence official said yesterday that President Bush authorized a series of secret surveillance activities under a single executive order in late 2001. The disclosure makes clear that a controversial National Security Agency program was part of a much broader operation than the president previously described.
The disclosure by Mike McConnell, the director of national intelligence, appears to be the first time that the administration has publicly acknowledged that Bush's order included undisclosed activities beyond the warrantless surveillance of e-mails and phone calls that Bush confirmed in December 2005.
In a letter to Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), McConnell wrote that the executive order following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks included "a number of . . . intelligence activities" and that a name routinely used by the administration -- the Terrorist Surveillance Program -- applied only to "one particular aspect of these activities, and nothing more."..........