To spy or not to spy: that is the "War on Terror" question…

It boggles the mind to think that Americans are as divided over whether it’s appropriate for the government to spy - without judicial warrants - on U.S. citizens suspected of having ties to terrorists, as they were over whether Al Gore or George Bush should have been elected president in 2000. But, that appears to be the case.

Not surprisingly, however, many partisans reduce the debate to a simplistic Hobson’s choice of either spying in the interest of "Homeland Security" or not spying in the interest of “Civil Liberties”. But I invite you to read this article and see if you can figure out what all this wiretap fuss is about….

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