QUOTE OF THE DAY

[The capability of the NSA] any time could be turned around on the
American people, and no American would have any privacy left, such is
the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations,
telegrams, it doesn't matter. There would be no place to hide. . . .
There would be no way to fight back because the most careful effort to
combine together in resistance to the government, no matter how
privately it was done, is within the reach of the government to know.

I don't want to see this country ever go across the bridge. I know the
capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see
to it that this agency [the National Security Agency] and all agencies
that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper
supervision, so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss
from which there is no return. -  Senator Frank Church (D-Idaho),
investigating the National Security Agency, 1975, quoted by Nat Hentoff
in the Village Voice