I think I wrote recently that the problem isn't with the specific things the Bush administration is doing with wiretaps; they're specifically targeted at legitimate terrorism worries. The problem is that with a new kind of war, which might not have an identifiable end, whatever civil liberties we agree to give up might be gone forever. Read this account of data-mining and try to decide if it's a logical response to the world we live in now or a scary escalation of the continued erosion of our privacy.
