>The President only authorized warrantless surveillance on those with a terrorist connection...

Define terrorist connection. In this case, it means anything that the administration says it means. And since they are doing the monitoring without a warrant, there is no one to verify that it isn't domestic political enemies that are being monitored. The whole argument of "if you don't have anything to hide" misses this point. We now know that the FBI has been conducting surveillance on Quakers and other non-Islamic, non-violent, and in common sense terms non-terrorist groups. Once you suspend the checks and balances provided by the law, agents of the government can spy on anyone for any reason. This is what can not be allowed to happen in a free and democratic society.

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