Frontline on Wiretapping

I want terrorist communications to be monitured by US intelligence as long as there is judicial oversight. I do not want my Constitutional rights against unreasonable searches to be violated. I'm sitting here watching Frontline on PBS, near the end of the first hour of the program on the president's wiretapping program. I am trying to be vigiliant about spotting any liberal bias in the way this information is presented and in the way the questions are asked. This is PBS after all, and any republican-lackey radio host worth his salt knows PBS is liberal bias incarnate. I want to be completely convinced before I start any angry rants. The history of illegal government surveillance of American citizens is as old as the telegram, continuing through the advent of telephones and existing in some form during every decade of the 20th century. By exposing specific facts about the activity of George Bush's current administration in a single case, it becomes painfully obvious that roughly 10% of PURELY DOMESTIC phone and internet communications are being monitored ILLEGALLY by the government in a blanket surveillance program. And this is what we know from one brave whistleblower - just think of the other privacy abuses going on using other telecoms and internet providers. A lawsuit in California was filed after the AT&T employee in San Diego discovered the illegal equipment in a secret room that diverted ALL communications to a government data miner by using a splitter. The National Security Administration and AT&T will not answer questions about this case. One of the most revolting parts is when Diane Feinstein asks Alberto Gonzales if any other programs exist where the president is using his self-defined "special executive authority", and Gonzales makes her repeat the question, then says he cannot answer it. He is a crafty lawyer indeed - his loyalty to his benefactor is strong. I have a lot of respect for Frontline for airing this - every American needs to know the details of how our 4th Amendment rights are being blatantly violated at this very moment. When they were questioned about this illegal spying operation, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and President George Bush lied to the American people.