By the same token, Congress didn't read those bills very thoroughly either, and the same thing happened with FDR's New Deal. Lo-and-behold, many of his New Deal's programs were scrapped because of conflicts that arose through contradictory effects that some programs had on others. There's a hell of a lot of people who're pretty steamed about this wire-tapping business and if spying wasn't such a quiet business, I think the outrage would be twice as great.

Hell, my photography intstructor has a friend who was approached by the FBI for questioning which spooked her pretty good (supposedly, they're very agressive in their interogation techniques). Apparently, they were under the impression that she was going to medic for the Iraqi insurgency because: 1.) She volunteers as a street medic at protests, and 2.) She was supposed to go to Iraq as a part of some program that helps Iraqi orphans(?). Talk about a total waste of resources.

The point is, I think this is closer to home than a lot of people think.