Nixon's Revenge: Everybody Loves a Spy!

The constant drumbeat that "9/11 Changed Everything" (read: be afraid all the time) has mostly changed Americans' willingness to live with a Sandanista-style invasion of their privacy:

Potential Evidence Surfaces of Bush's Illegal Spying: "Thomas Nelson has been practicing administrative law for most of his professional life, but after September 11th he first began offering pro bono work for immigrants detained in broad FBI terrorism sweeps. He is currently leading a little-discussed case that may contain the first documented evidence of an illegal wiretap, and believes that as a result, he himself has been subjected to warrantless -- and therefore illegal -- wiretaps and physical searches, the kind of clandestine operation that Nixon referred to as 'black bag jobs.' And as a result of extreme carelessness by the FBI, Nelson may have his hands on the only solid evidence of these searches."