Originally Posted by Kestrel

I know you didn't explicitly say anything about it in the post I quoted, but I'm sure it's been mentioned in this thread, namely that if you have nothing to hide, why would you worry? In my experience, everybody has something to hide, everybody has a secret, it's just a matter of what it is. I know you're going to come back and say you don't, and I'm not going to argue with you since I don't know you. But from all the people I've dealt with in the field, everybody has something hide. And that's why I care about the US's ability to spy on its citizens; maybe what I do today isn't something they care about, but how about tomorrow, or 10 years from now, or 40 years from now?