[ContemptofCourt]

Howlin, I generally agree with your POV. However, in this regard, I have to disagree.

This is a very slipperly slope that we are going down...and the ONLY reason the FReepers are behind it is because they feel that they can trust this administration.

I, on the other hand, tend to look at these issues with my Clintonista glasses on...and through those lenses, this troubles me....because some day, you and I are going to be labelled "terrorists"....

[xcamel]

Only if you're taking calls from Uncle Fizel in Kabul...

[Peach]

Haven't you read that previous administrations have done the exact same thing, without a word of complaint from the press?

Carter used NSA to spy on Iranians in contact with Americans. Clinton used NSA to spy on Americans, especially white supremists, after the Oklahoma City bombing.

So we've already slid down any slipper slope you're worried about.

[Howlin]

This is a very slipperly slope that we are going down...

I know you and I usually agree, but think of it this way: you're right about the slippery slope, but it's not caused by US, it was caused by 40 years of unchecked LIBERALISM in the government. Think of all the outrageous rulings giving criminals/crooks/terrorits/illegals more rights than we have!

I see these moves as rectifying years and years of liberals run amuck -- and I swear I don't think Bush would do anything or ask for any rule that would hurt the general public, even in another administration.

Think of it this way: if George Bush and Dick Cheney had been in charge, do you think the trial against the first WTC bombers would have been in a civil court? Do you think that a district attorney appointed by George Bush would have handed over the BLUEPRINTS to the World Trade Center to the defense in that case? Hell no, because it wouldn't have been in a civil courtroom!

Wonder how long it took the "defense" in that case to photocopy those blue prints and send them to Osama bin Laden (hell, that lawyer, Lynn what's her name that was convicted of passing messengers with her clients in that trial, probably hand delivered them to him!)

[milagro]

I think Rush Limbaugh's point (made last week sometime to a caller who expressed the same worries about "what if Hillary is Prez?") needs to be repeated: Hillary could care less if it were lawful or not to "spy" on those who she thought of as "enemies", e.g.--the FBI files.

For the likes of the Clintonistas, laws as for OTHER people to follow--not them!

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

This is a very slipperly slope that we are going down...and the ONLY reason the FReepers are behind it is because they feel that they can trust this administration

conservatives negotiating constitutional "slope" Liberals negotiating same slope

Conservatives must face the reality of the terrain....and act accordingly.

[FreeReign]

I, on the other hand, tend to look at these issues with my Clintonista glasses on...and through those lenses, this troubles me....because some day, you and I are going to be labelled "terrorists"....

There is nothing in the Patriot Act that would define us as being terrorists.