Warrants Are For Losers
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.







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