“I certainly wouldn’t want my children to be fingerprinted or have an
iris scan or anything like that,” said Sen. Karen Johnson, R-Mesa,
“We’ve lived many years without doing this. Now this seems to be the
thing everyone is doing, thinking they’re making themselves safe or for
efficiency, and, by golly, it’s not right. And it’s a huge moneymaker

Congressman Jeb Hensarling
(R-TX), Chairman of the Republican Study Committee, announced plans to
call for an immediate suspension of the earmarking process after
learning that a prominent House Democrat suggested to Speaker Nancy

The CIA, under the leadership of George Tenet, realized that it had the wrong man, but rather than apologize, agents abandoned Masri on a hilltop in Albania, apparently hoping that no one would believe his story.

An internal FBI audit has found that the bureau potentially violated the law or agency rules more than 1,000 times while collecting data about domestic phone calls, e-mails and financial transactions in recent years, far more than was documented in a Justice Department report in March that ignited bipartisan congressional criticism.

The way Peel tells it, her patients now include every U.S. patient, whose medical privacy is being unethically and even illegally invaded by healthcare’s paparazzi—the multibillion-dollar medical data-mining industry—and the pharmaceutical and insurance companies the data-miners serve. She also believes federal officials are hell-bent on promoting healthcare IT, but aren’t listening to patients' concerns that their most intimate information, once digitized, could be lost, stolen or stored and held against them.

The FBI has blatantly abused a key PATRIOT Act provision and knowingly violated the law to spy on Americans' telephone, Internet, and other personal records, as documented in a report recently released by the Justice Department. Congress must rein in this egregious behavior

“National Security Letters are a clear and dangerous violation of Americans’ expectation of privacy in their financial, communications and insurance records unless they have done something wrong,” said Liberty Coalition national director Michael Ostrolenk. “If Director Mueller wants to uphold both his word and duty, he will not oppose reforms of this intrusive, unchecked power.”

In this wonderful and modern 21st century, in which most people lack any meaningful understanding of the Bill of Rights, and a time in which a majority of the citizenry — and of our elected officials — appears willing to let the government have just as much power as it wants, wouldn't it make sense to just drop a few words from the Bill of Rights; make it more helpful to government and less coddling of criminals?