domestic surveillance

We do not know our enemy.
What do you Really know about your employee? 
What do you Really know about your lover? 
What do you Really know about your baby sitter? 
What do you Really know about your business associate?

“Reality itself is its own evidence.”*
you have to have not only clues but have it in a forensic way
An inherent vulnerability of free and democratic societies is that they are subject to a greater degree of terrorism and espionage activity because of the freedoms and liberties enjoyed by the citizenry.
The objective of surveillance is to obtain information about people, their associates, and their activities through covert observations.
Government agencies have detained hundreds of people for questioning 
and are searching for more.
Their intelligence is very active trying to look out for possible collaborators
The government seeks to broaden domestic surveillance
[and] went to great lengths to conceal this operation from the public.
They are basically digging in for a long guerrilla campaign.
The hallmark of free societies is that deference is given to the citizens, not the government.
That's not for us to determine.
It is still not clear
Disinformation is a large part of its covert action
"The people most able to give informed views will be unable to comment."

I understand the law - the hair-splitting issue you speak of
I do not know why I was chosen, or by whom
caught up in this illegal domestic covert operation,
explaining how an attacker thinks,
[just] to justify domestic spying.

Tada! Ok, maybe it isn't such a good idea:
the assumption of enormous powers by federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies
Different countries were given varying amounts of information, partly determined by how much intelligence they had shared
Americans are split when it comes to suspicion of people with Middle Eastern backgrounds
the process was cloaked in absolute secrecy.
A rubberstamp court conducts all of its hearings in a secret windowless courtroom
people will tell you privately that they are questioning the wisdom of the government
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated
rather than abandon them, have recourse to explanations
inconsistent and incongruous with the words written, 
which explanations, instead supplying a defense of the foreigners
capture all satellite, microwave, cellular and fiber-optic traffic
An astonishing amount of information exists as electromagnetic impulses
As an example of this absurdity take a man whom I met
based on telephone interviews with 1,001 adults
These communications are ripe for the picking
evidence against US citizens in criminal trials is growing rapidly.
It's all the same smut as far as I am concerned.
The judge didn't take kindly to it at all.
it will backfire on you some day
sometimes it's just a four letter word called HOPE
I'm going to try it out straight-away when I get home today.
We would be happy to discuss this matter with you..
Information is a double edged sword.
 

*A Saying of Hazrat Inayat Khan
http://serendipity.magnet.ch/cia/lyon.html
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Democracy/Secret_DomesSurveillanceUS.html
http://sli.mine.nu/users/vitaly/
http://www.aclu.org/congress/lg040699a.html
http://www.pimall.com/nais/n.entrap.html