[Sweetjustusnow]

Privacy went down the hole when Social Security numbers were issued.

That being said, data mining is what Able Danger was about and listening to foreign phone calls in and out of this country has been going on at least as far back as the Carter administration.

[servantboy777]

"Foreign phone calls" and thats ok, that type of thing indicates limited scope.

I'm realistic, I know we are in a war and sometimes we have to do things that we don't agree with.

My problem is that their is already a mechanism in place to handle searches. If you have probable cause, you may obtain a warrant. Probable cause is pretty broad in itself.

When you begin to move into the gray areas, when you infringe on basic privacy rights of the majority to hope for an arrest of the very small minority, what you've done is deny basic rights for all.

That seems almost self explanatory.