Reply #11: Absolutely possible, to which one should then add the factor of Warantless Wire-tapping and then

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consider the types of information that might be considered a threat to the Trans-National Corporations who run our Politicians and, hence, our Government. Think about what's happening Behind Behind-the-Scenes right now in our Financial Sector, what choruses of "Et tu Brute?" are being heard . . . . Think about the whole cycle repeating itself one or more times in the future. You are most definitely right, "regular" Americans ARE threatened and quite possibly not because they have anything to do with the Military directly, but maybe for things having to do with stuff that is more like Industrial Espionage, which COULD be justified by the possibilities of Industrial Espionage for PRIVATE businesses such as Xe, which contracts with our government and with foreign governments.