Oh, that Fourth Amendment, how quaint:
Attorney General Al Gonzales on Thursday left open the possibility that President Bush could order no-warrant wiretaps on telephone calls occurring solely within the U.S., thus expanding the potential reach of the National Security Agency’s controversial surveillance program. In response to a question from Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., during an appearance before the House Judiciary Committee, Mr. Gonzales said the government would have to determine if a conversation was related to al-Qaeda and crucial to fighting terrorism before listening in without court supervision. “I’m not going to rule it out,” Mr. Gonzales said of the possibility of monitoring purely domestic communications.
I guess it’s another sign of the progress of human evolution: humans are getting bigger and stronger, and their government leaders are simply getting wiser. We no longer need the restrictions from an archaic, two-century-old document to impede their good deeds. Those obsolete civil liberties are so 18th century.