Jake, not to get into a detailed discussion of just where your rights to privacy end, but were you under the impression that back during WWII, you could communicate with your cousin Fritz in Germany or Uncle Hiro in Japan without Uncle Sam reading your mail? That great liberal FDR had thousands of Americans placed in "relocation camps"--just because they happened to be Japanese-Americans. And while much has been made of "secret prisons" and harsh interrogation techniques in the current war on terror, you might want to review what FDR did to a group of German saboteurs--guys that never even attempted (let alone committed) sabotage. Just to save you the trouble, they were tried--before a military tribunal, in fact--and 6 of the 8 of them were executed. Meanwhile, our British allies--as part of an operation called Doublecross--gave captured German spies an interesting choice: cooperate with British intelligence or be executed. The result was a very successful counterintelligence and disinformation operation.

What terrible things today's conservatives are doing to our terrorist enemies . . .