Reply #14: I agree--not only will the leakers be shown to be patriotic and brave [View All]

protectors of our constitutional and civil rights, but the extent to which the wiretapping went on will also horrify most Americans who haven't drunk the Kool-Aid.

Molly Ivins referred in her column the other day to "millions" of intercepted messages. I haven't seen anything else about that number (and of course, if the number really is that huge, that's practically a guarantee that totally innocent citizens--maybe even Bush supporters!--will have had their privacy invaded). But I was away from the TV and the computer for a few days, so maybe I missed something. Is that the new number--millions?

(Here's what she said:
"You will be unsurprised to learn that, first, they lied. They didn't do it. Well, OK, they did it, but not very much at all. Well, OK, more than that. A lot more than that. OK, millions of private e-mail and telephone calls every hour, and all medical and financial records.")
http://www.alternet.org/story/30175/

Millions of private e-mails and phone calls an hour? All medical and financial records? That means the government was spying on YOU, Joe Six-Pack. And I don't think Joe is going to appreciate that.