Nation needs to know about records at NSA

The more that becomes known about the federal government's surveillance activities, the more disturbing the program becomes ..

.. serious questions are being raised about the volume of the records the NSA has collected since the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001 and how that information may have been used. President Bush says that the government is not going through the personal lives of innocent Americans and that privacy is being protected. That follows the same assurances the administration has given since the eavesdropping conducted by the NSA first became known. But the government has been antsy about information of the program getting out ..

Americans deserve to know what exactly is going on at the NSA, to what degree telecommunications companies are involved and whether all of the activity is legal and constitutional. Americans want terrorists found. But that shouldn't come at the expense of civil liberties. Word of the magnitude of the records in government hands only ratchets up the debate.

http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060514/OPINION01/605140373/1008

we will not know what really is going on (only the public reports of-of course not).