re: #267 J.S.

There’s a lengthy wiki article giving the background details…basically it goes “it was legal; no, it was illegal; yes it was legal; no it was illegal; yes it was legal; etc” and it’s still in the courts…It’s a lawyer’s make work project…and, ongoing.

Good link. I’ve actually read a lot about it. I am in general, and call ths a crazy liberal idea, wary of the idea of the government reading my mail without oversight. There is simply too much room for abuse.

I agree that we can get into an endless debate about legalese.

Such things always need to come back to the real world of if you don’t trust the Govt to do healthcare, then why in G-d’s name would you trust them to violate the privacy of Americans without oversight, - especially when there are hundreds of children under 5 on the no -fly list.

And that is just a trivial throw away example. That does not count people who we flew, without trial, to places like Syria to be tortured.