Reply #12: Putting the legal issue aside for a moment ...

[NanceGreggs]

... think about the millions of phone calls that go on in the US every day, and the millions of emails that are sent.

Does anyone honestly think that the gov't, even with their vast resources, can read/listen to ALL of them? If that's ALL the gov't was doing with this program, it would be a needle-in-a-haystack scenario that would be (a) extraordinarily time-consuming and vastly expensive, and (b) the chances of randomly finding some solid information would be virtually billions-to-one.

Apparently these people (quoted above) must believe that Bush and his minions are prescient, and can zero in, without too much difficulty, on a single phone call or email message that may be of some value.

Impossible -- but then, these are probably the same people who believe Saddam Hussein was the mastermind of 9/11, and we found WMDs in Iraq the minute we got there.

They probably also think that 'the bad guys' have their phones listed under names like Mr. Wannabe Terrorist or Ms. Ties-to-Al-Queda ...