A Tipping Point on Eavesdropping

The TippingPoint should have been the reprehensible Patriot Act, but Americans, and Congress, were still sitting around in their wet Didies and were all for it.

In slight defense of the Democrats, they had just gone through an attempted assassination of their leadership, when they voted for the (un)patriot act.

What ever happened to the Anthrax investigation, anyhow?

TIME.com: A Tipping Point on Eavesdropping -- Page 1: "Are we at a tipping point yet? What author Malcolm Gladwell described as small things that make a big difference seems like an apt metaphor for the latest developments on civil liberties and the Bush administration. First was Thursday morning's USA Today story, declaring, 'NSA Has Massive Database of Americans' Phone Calls.' The story dominated the morning news shows and drove the day's events, with the President racing to the microphones in the Diplomatic Room of the White House before departing on a trip to Mississippi. Bush didn't get into the specifics of the USA Today story, but he did defend the program, saying the federal government is not 'mining or trolling through the personal lives of innocent Americans.' "