[pawdoggie]

It's been my observation that many of the contributors to this site devote a lot of electrons to denouncing the lack of governmental/police, teacher, clergy, parental, etc., oversight of terrorists, teenagers, criminals, corporate executives, rogue cops, pedophile priests, etc. But when the Federal government attempts to enlist the cooperation of the people in a position to know about the activities of the terrorists who threaten that most basic of rights, human life, we see a flood of messages decrying the great loss of liberty. Bill Clinton didn't need a TIPS program to "spy" on his opponents, he did it the old-fashioned way: by promoting corrupt officials in the FBI and DOJ. Would a TIPS-type program, specifically oriented on the immediate terrorist threat, be any more destructive of individual liberty than the worst depredations of Clinton or Nixon?