[Wasanother]

If this is the premise of constitutionality then every time my phone number shows up on some caller ID my rights have been violated. When someone hears me on my cell phone in public then my rights have been violated. When another computer puts a cookie on my computer my rights have been violated. When I e-mail someone and someone else reads it, regardless of circumstances, my rights have been violated. If I e-mailed Zarqawi in Iraq and the feds saw it my rights have been violated. sarc

[Mr. Bird]

Every time a federal agent (which is what the TSA employees are) searches you or your belongings in an airport? Every time a customs agent inspects your baggage as you enter the country? Warrantless searches conducted on US citizens by the executive branch.

What's funny is that these searches do not even have a remote claim to probable cause, whereas the NSA wiretapping targets individuals with known ties to the enemy.