"Broad new surveillance powers approved by Congress this month could allow the Bush administration to conduct spy operatives that go well beyond wiretapping to include - without court approval - certain types of physical searches on American soil and the collection of Americans' business records, Democratic Congressional officials and other experts said.
Administration officials acknowledge that they had heard such concerns from Democrats in Congress recently, and that there was a continuing debate over the meaning of the legislative language. But they said the Democrats were simply raising theoretical questions based on a harsh interpretation of the legislation"...
...harsh interpretation?!
full article from nytimes.com: "Concern Over Wider Spying Under New Law"
Next step: the Real ID Act, which the Department of Homeland Security insists is an "essential tool to fight the war on terror."
Somehow, I'm not reassured that the Real ID Act will provide us with much protection. If it goes though, we'll need protection from the "protection" the act promises. Those IDs reminds me of black slaves' "freedom papers"...and Jews' IDs and stars of David during WWII...
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i wonder if it will ever stop. Every time i look on the news we are getting closer and closer to becoming a nation without privacy. i am starting to think i would rather have a terrorist act on this country than any more of my rights taken away.
"...give me liberty or give me death!"
- Patrick Henry, 1775
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