"Under a presidential order signed in 2002, the intelligence agency has monitored the international telephone calls and international e-mail messages of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people inside the United States without warrants over the past three years..."

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/22/nyregion/22police.html?ex=1135746000&en=53334bb47adc9f11&e i=5070

"Beyond collecting information, some of the undercover officers or their associates are seen on the tape having influence on events. At a demonstration last year during the Republican National Convention, the sham arrest of a man secretly working with the police led to a bruising confrontation between officers in riot gear and bystanders."

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/20/politics/20fbi.html?ex=1135746000&en=0184c4f98727565d&ei=5 070

"The documents, provided to The New York Times over the past week, came as part of a series of Freedom of Information Act lawsuits brought by the American Civil Liberties Union. For more than a year, the A.C.L.U. has been seeking access to information in F.B.I. files on about 150 protest and social groups that it says may have been improperly monitored."

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/25/politics/25wiretap.html?ex=1135746000&en=d2ae725096562244& ei=5070

"Congressional officials said Saturday that they wanted to investigate the disclosure that the National Security Agency had gained access to some of the country's main telephone arteries to glean data on possible terrorists."

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/25/weekinreview/25bamford.html?ex=1135746000&en=0267ffdbbdeb2c92& amp;ei=5070

"Run by the ultrasecret National Security Agency, the listening post intercepts all international communications entering the eastern United States. Another N.S.A. listening post, in Yakima,Wash., eavesdrops on the western half of the country."

The Bush adminisdtration war on the US constitution.  Be afraid!

http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin