First it was our phone calls, then our email, then our mail, and now our financial records. What concerns me is that there is no warrants, there is no oversight, we are just throwing up our hands and trusting the Bush administration. Bush has created a permanent emergency state and is using that do whatever they want. They slowly ratchet up their powers, slowly gaining more and more power over the American citizen. Stand up now for what is right, stand up now for freedom, or sit down and take it for the rest of your days.

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Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday the Pentagon and CIA are not violating people’s rights by examining the banking and credit records of hundreds of Americans and others suspected of terrorism or espionage in the United States.
Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, the new chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said his panel will be the judge of that.
National security letters permit the executive branch to seek records about people in terrorism and spy investigations without a judge’s approval or grand jury subpoena.

“The Defense Department gets involved because we’ve got hundreds of bases inside the United States that are potential terrorist targets,” Cheney said.
“The Department of Defense has legitimate authority in this area. This is an authority that goes back three or four decades. It was reaffirmed in the Patriot Act,” he said. “It’s perfectly legitimate activity. There’s nothing wrong with it or illegal. It doesn’t violate people’s civil rights.”