Those of us who believe that the Constitution means what it says have
been arguing since the late 1970s that congressional efforts to
strengthen national security by weakening personal liberty are
unconstitutional, un-American and ineffective. The Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act, which Congress passed in the aftermath of President
Richard Nixon's use of the CIA and the FBI to spy on his political
opponents, has unleashed demons that now seem beyond the government's
control and are more pervasive than anything Nixon could have dreamed
of. ... MORE