[Hostage]

unless the reporters are in phone conversations with overseas AlQaeda...

How about domestic AlQaeda? Doesn't that go to the crux of the problem, to wit: fight a global war everywhere except inside the USA because of Constitutional protections?

[theDentist]

Exactly. How wiretaps are conducted in domestic circumstances is the meat of it.

[theDentist]

In fact, I also think of it this way: If we allow such taps domestically (sp?), do you want a Dem President (Hillary) to have that legal capability? You think 900 FBI files was an outrage...