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I can't find it. THOMAS has the bill (HR 5710), but I can't find anything about searching all our e-mail, credit card transactions, etc.

I think that in one of the companion bills to H.R. 5710, perhaps H.R. 3482 (although I haven't seen this verbiage in there yet, either), there is a provision to allow for warrantless searches of financial records. However, IMO Safire took that language, combined it with the DARPA concept model and made the giant leap that H.R. 5710 authorized gathering of this information - when it simply does not. This is some really sloppy journalism on the part of Safire and now the Washington Times. For cryin' out loud, there probably is a website about a planned manned mission to Mars. Doesn't mean that it's gonna happen anytime soon.

OK, we're on the same page. I read Sec 307 about ten times because it was the only place that even seemed remotely like what this article, and a couple others, are worried about. This kind of thing drives me crazy because all the "crying wolf" is going to get us all lazy and miss something really bad coming through.