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The tests were supposed to remain anonymous.

I suspected as much

But a federal grand jury in San Francisco that issued indictments in February against four men for allegedly distributing steroids to professional athletes sought the test results as part of its probe.

This does not authorise an ex-post-facto warrant. There is no consent to search either. The testing was conducted under one set of rules which were agreed upon by both parties. One party violates the agreement, it is dissolved.

I see two possabilites.

1. All baseball players, employees, managers, owners, hotdog venders, etc. boycott drug testing beginning today. If testing is forced, strike.

2. If the fed.gov jumps up and indicates "we are the almighty fed, thou shalt do my bidding" all associated with baseball maks public exactly what the IRS (!?!) did. If the fed pushes the issue that is evidence of tyranny.

How does it go?

JUST SAY NO.

It is a horrid action, in many, many ways. Like most of the un-Constitutional Federal "war on drugs" it is invasive. Interesting that it falls so soon after Allen J. Favish's request for the Foster "suicide" phots was rejected 9-0 by the Supreme Court on PRIVACY grounds. Would they be even 1/10th so zealous of the privacy of the general public with regard to all the blatant PRIVACY intrusions of the "war on drugs"!

Another great invader of the sacred PRIVATE realm is the income tax, and it certainly is at least curious and reasonably alarming and scary that the IRS can now somehow reach out and grab our medical records for action against some third party.

A number of my own blood and urine tests were had at a QUEST clinic. This invasion -- this intrusion -- makes me reluctant to go back to them -- but then where can I go?

And there's the great horror -- like me, there are goinng to be people people who will avoid medical tests they should otherwise be wise to get, for the sake of PRIVACY.

So the Federales have just injured a GREAT number of Americans by raising that now totally justified fear.