9/11 Begets 1984
So much for court orders, due process, privacy, innocent until presumed guilty, habeas corpus.
Wonder how long before Republicans started abusing the authority and began tracking their political and personal enemies? I assume it's happened. I have no proof. But since the White House impugns anyone who disagrees with it on the war as traitors and cowards and sympathizers, it'd only be a logical extension in their warped view to also bug those traitors to make sure they aren't terrorists to boot.