Because the terrorists prefer VZW!

The Obama administration on Thursday defended its collection of the telephone records of millions of Americans as part of U.S. counterterrorism efforts, re-igniting a fierce debate over privacy even as it called the program critical to warding off an attack.

The admission came after Britain’s Guardian newspaper published on Wednesday a secret court order authorizing the collection of phone records generated by millions of Verizon Communications customers.

Privacy advocates blasted the order as unconstitutional government surveillance and called for a review of the program amid renewed concerns about intelligence-gathering efforts launched after the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.

The revelation also put a spotlight on the handling of intelligence and privacy issues by President Barack Obama’s administration, which already is under fire for searching the telephone records of Associated Press journalists and the emails and phone records of a Fox News Channel reporter as part of its inquiries into leaked government information.

And not ATT?

Or Sprint?

Or Google?

Or Gmail?

Or Hotmail?

Or Yahoo?

Or (now) Outlook.com?

Hey how about mail.reagan.com? Miss that, did you? Lots of dangerous extremist types there.

As an ACLU lawyer told me in 1968 (over the Nazis marching in Skokie), only by protecting the rights of the most obnoxious among us can we ensure our own.

Now NO ONE wants to miss a Tamerlan and his frickin’ brother, but ALL of Verizon wireless?

Make your best and specific arguments, govt. Otherwise, SHUT IT OFF YOU FRICKIN’ TURDS

But you have to be feeling that it’s not this issue, it’s THE PATTERN. It’s a symptom.

Even the Bob Beckel’s and New Republic’s are in opposition.

The govt is a danger to freedom.

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