Privacy Rights

Patriotism: The last refuge of the scoundrel

Extraordinary Power and Privacy Grab. That's exactly what the FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) is.  FISA empowers the government to spy on U.S. citizens communications -- their emails, phone calls, etc. As Libertarian Presidential Candidate, Bob Barr, notes in the video above, the only requirement some bureaucrat needs to tap into your communications -- phone, email or otherwise -- and record them for posterity is that the other party is located abroad. That person does not n...