John W. Dean makes a good point in an article entitled Government Surveillance Threatens Your Freedom, Even If You Have Nothing To Hide.
That's true. And of course, the other issue in play at the moment is whether anyone should watch the watchmen. Proponents of the Bush-Cheney surveillance plans keep trying to frame the debate as if opponents object to spying on terrorists. But the true objection is to the spying being done without accountability so that no one will know if the spying is done, say, on political opponents. I think someone should be asking the folks pushing the unrestricted spying if they really think the President of the United States, whoever it is at any given moment, should have the unsupervised right to spy on any American for any reason without oversight…and if so, how that jibes with that thing we call The Constitution.