"Stay out of our bedrooms" is a popular slogan among people who stand up for privacy rights, individual liberties, and reproductive freedom. But having the government listening just outside our bedrooms isn't good either.
This Boston Globe editorial, Bush's boudoir eavesdroppers, urges a thorough investigation to find out whether or not it's true that government agents have used expanded wiretapping powers to listen in on "intimate" phone calls between spouses and partners from Americans abroad -- including members of the military -- just for the fun of it, just because they could.
The piece also suggests the need for Congress to revisit the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Amendments Act of 2008, which did away with the need for court approval for government monitoring of Americans' communications to and from abroad.
We agree! There are many reasons why this year's Congressional cave-in on FISA was wrong, but one of them is simply that a warrant would put a much stronger barrier between high-tech government peeping Toms and ordinary, unsuspecting citizens.
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