Thank you sir..I been around awhile ..mostly just read along..Had to jump in on this one though ..Such utter nonsense from a few here. Don't have brains nough to protect themselves in the name of saving their constitional rights. All wars have relied on the SMART us eof intelligence gathering . The lack of that type of intelligence is what allowed 9/11 to happen in the first place. I wouldn't stay up any later waiting for the list of "lost freedoms" since the Patriot Act was passed to be posted.Oh yea , I forgot the Swiss Army knife on the plance..Oh man ..I need sleep here ..Beyond belief.The writers of the Constitution would be rolin gin their graves if they saw the extent people are going here.
These folks would never have made it during WWII.
The FFS thought that most of the populace were far too STUPID for this nation's good. They may have been elitists, but they really weren't all that wrong. The few loonies on this thread, just prove how prescient they were.
And if Able Danger is an indicator of the willingness to go after terrorists, then allowing government to abuse power it feels it needs, without checks and balances, and by making those powers permanent, all in the name of safety, rings hollow.
Nobody can tell me that our government (i.e. defense and intelligence) didn't know exactly where terrorists were camped out prior to 9/11 and for us to wait, what was it...two months?...before we hit them suggests to me, what with the evidence noted above, that even with all of the power granted to them, they'd be content to watch them going about their business of trying to kill Americans while they amass data on them.