[El Gato]

We were at war when the last abuses were done. The public The Democrats and the Media knew this and still wanted the power of domestic spying without warrants taken away from the government and they got laws enacted to that effect.

There, now it's correct. Besides, this was not "domestic spying" it was monitoring the communications of foreign terrorists, and only when they contacted someone in the US was that person's communications targeted, and even then, only their international communications.

It also appears that if the person seemed to be actively involved in planing or supporting terrorist activities, then a warrant was sought to monitor their domestic communications as well. I think the administration bent over backwards to accommodate the law to well beyond the limits of the Constitutionality of that law.

[gondramB]

"There, now it's correct. Besides, this was not "domestic spying" it was monitoring the communications of foreign terrorists, and only when they contacted someone in the US was that person's communications targeted, and even then, only their international communications."

I hope that turns out to be the case...