[TheClintons-STILLAnti-American]

Figures.

Track ordinary Americans, but not terrorist cells.

Incompetent, freedom-hating boobs.

[TYVets]

Big Brother wants to watch the serfs even more than it does now.

[a fool in paradise]

FBI agents obtained logs from mobile phone companies corresponding to what their cellular towers had recorded at the time of a dozen different bank robberies in the Dallas area. The voluminous records showed that two phones had made calls around the time of all 12 heists, and that those phones belonged to men named Tony Hewitt and Corey Duffey.

They had to look at everyone's phone records to connect those dots. It's a world of difference to listening in on someone stateside in an international call with a member of Al Qaeda.

The press had journalists who WERE communicating directly with AQ. This is the reason for the big stink. Has to be. Time Magazine was one such publication with these contacts.

[Mad Dawgg]

"Feds push for tracking cell phones"

More undeniable proof that Orwell wasn't a novelist, he was an oracle who wrote in novel format!:

[Rippin]

Right, since everyone has a cell phone they’ll just club people, take their cellphones and then pitch them. Great. And all the Lefty org’s that bashed W. over privacy concerns will A) Scream B) Engage in constructive challenging dialogue with O C) Sit Down and STFU.

No need to answer.

[Skenderbej]

And yet you would be committing a crime if you modified a regular GSM phone to listen to someone else’s phone conversation, because they have an expectation of privacy.

[dervish]

I don’t hear the ACLU screaming the way they did under Pres Bush’s Patriot Act.

Only foreigners and terrorists and people who use the PUBLIC library deserve privacy protection.