Quote Originally Posted by amsterdam
I did misunderstand. I will say again however that the wiretap is perfectly legal in a time of war and thats that. People have become hysterical over this and its gotten kinda funny. If you arent friends with any islamo-fascists you have NOTHING to worry about. This was also used quite a bit during the 90's but of course that dosen't fit with the medias agenda so people will never hear much about it. Sad that in 1998 or 19999 we actually had 8 of the hijackers who crashed into the towers identufied but because of laws created the info couldnt be shared with the right people.
I agree with you about the media's agenda, however we are not at war since it has not been "officially" declared and there is no one coutry to officially declare was against. We are "marching freedom and democracy". Even when we are at war, the warrants are still required. (athough previous corrupt presidents like Johnson, Clinton, Bush 1 will tell you different if it saves their asses) It's not an issue of whether we "have nothing to worry about" if we're not in league with the bad guys, it the issue of granting the feds more power than they should ever have. As for sharing the information of various agencies, that was an issue of politics, corruption and competition between the various intelligence agencies who were unwilling to "share the collar" so to speak. FBI, CIA, NSA, Military Intelligence,etc have never worked together to solve any issue because of their various political ties and rarely share their information with one another. Too many cooks in the kitchen, so to speak. I have yet to see any evidence of terrorist activity in most parts of the country, barring 9/11 which is the only one I am aware of, for many years and firmly believe that the threat to our country has been grossly overblown by the same media that has been attacking our pres, and his predecessors so vehemently for so many years. That being said, we have no way of knowing how many attacks may have been averted in the last 5 years since no one tells.