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...Bush's Secret Spy Net time reported that the National Security Agency (NSA), with help from phone companies, has been tracking the calls of tens of millions of Americans - in secret, without a warrant and without Congress's approval [May 22]. President George W. Bush will never stop al-Qaeda by spying on innocent Americans. In addition to being a waste of resources, that expansion of government power invades our privacy and tramples our freedoms. It must be stopped. If our government continues to spy on ordinary citizens, then the terrorists will have succeeded in eroding our liberty. Robert Boden...
Even if the NSA and the President never abuse the power to invade the privacy of Americans, who can say that a future Administration will not abuse the power obtained through the precedent? History teaches that the rights of individuals may be more easily lost than regained. Let us guard against future abuse by protecting our privacy...
...NSA program is long overdue. It should have been implemented after the initial truck-bomb attack on the World Trade Center. Had we been connecting the dots in that way all along, 9/11 might never have happened...
President Franklin Roosevelt said it well: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." TIME's reporting on the NSA seems aimed at making the American people paranoid. Let the civil libertarians be fearful and anxious. If monitoring our phones keeps just one American from being harmed, the government can listen to my calls anytime it wants...
...doesn't matter whether the polls show that the American people do or do not support the NSA's monitoring of Americans' phone calls. It matters only that such actions violate the Constitution, specifically the Fourth Amendment, which requires probable cause and warrants for such investigations. The Founding Fathers never said the Bill of Rights had to pass a popularity test in order to be enforced. The phones of suspected terrorists have been and should continue to be monitored--with court supervision. Without such oversight, the possibility for abuses of private information is very real...