In the Huffington Post, former BBC journalist Ian Masters article Against All Enemies: Foreign or Domestic? describes why some of us are very troubled by Bush's domestic spying. Someone said to me if he's just going after people that al Qaeda called ok, but it seems all too likely that he's doing more than that. We've seen past reports on FBI spying since the Patriot Act, and Masters lays out Bush's "history of mining data for dirt".
Even without Watergate kinds of conspiracies, nearly 30,000 airline passengers discovered in the past year that they were mistakenly placed on federal "terrorist" watch lists. At least they weren't kidnapped and imprisoned for five months, and "shackled, beaten, photographed nude and injected with drugs by interrogators." [Links and text from Schneier]
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