still more invasions of our privacy

Terror fund tracking program draws protest
WASHINGTON - A secret Bush administration program to track people suspected of bankrolling terrorism drew protests from Democrats in Congress on Friday while Republicans defended the effort as vital to waging a global war against terrorism.
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Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass. and co-chairman of the Congressional Privacy Caucus, said Friday that there were disturbing similarities between the bank monitoring program and the secret surveillance program for telephone calls that was revealed last year.

"Like the domestic surveillance program exposed last December, the Bush administration's efforts to tap into the financial records of thousands of Americans appear to rely on justifications concocted without regard to current law," Markey said in a statement.

"If the administration wants to fight terrorism legally, then it should ask for the authority it needs and then follow the law that Congress passes," Markey said. "Don't claim 'temporary emergency' and then operate in secret for five years."

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It is so disgusting and depressing that this administration can repeatedly break our laws and laugh in our faces when we call them on it and never, ever have any form of accountability.
Will we ever get America back?