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Originally Posted by firstdown
This wiretapping is not what people make it out to be and has been blowing way out of wack. The program involves monitoring international phone calls and emails to and from the US INVOLVING PEOPLE WITH SUSPECTED TIES TO TERRORISTS. WOW, they want to hear what someone might be saying to someone over seas because they think they could be link to TERRORISTS. That might not be a bad idea and a highly doubt that anyone of us or anybody we know are on that list. If your on that list you probably deserve to be and I hope they are monitoring you activities. The way its been made out is that the are wiretapping everyones phone or emails. Good thing they made this public so we could warn the terrorist of another way we might catch them.
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First, you must have access to some top secret information, because the precise scope and nature of the secret wiretapping program has not been made public. What we do know is that AG Gonzalez said they were wiretapping the lines of "people who the government had a reasonable basis to believe were involved in terrorist activities." Every lawyer will tell you that "reasonable basis" is an INCREDIBLY easy threshhold to satisfy.
Second, the merits of the wiretapping program is not at issue. What is at issue is how many conservatives narrow the scope of Constitutional protections when it comes to the war on terrorism and very broadly define it when dealing with the 2nd Amendment.