Originally Posted by pocketkangaroo

Actually I'm correct, you should look over the Patriot Act before you comment on it.

The act allows the government to only have to go before a FISA court to allow for surveillance on your personal phone, library, computer records and so on. A FISA court does not require reasonable suspicion or evidence to do this, and they don't even need to obtain the permission for awhile after they have started surveillance.

Now my comment came on something you said about whether we had been infringed on. I said we'd never know, because the FISA court records are not public record. In fact, a Federal judge also said that individuals do not have the right to know if they have ever been spied on.

Those are the facts of the act, I'm sorry if you have read something different about it. My statement was true. I have not acknowledged whether I support or disapprove of the Patriot Act, just that it does not require the old warrants to look through our records.