Payat wrote:

I just discovered your site and think you hit the nail right in the head. This is an email I just sent to the President:

Dear Mr. President,

It has been with ever increasing distress that I've been reading about the wiretapping the NSA has been carrying out in the United States. Why didn't you go through FISA? They've approved every domestic wiretap except four since FISA was created. Is the process of getting approval 72 hours after the process is acted out that hard?

My fiancé is a British citizen and a journalist (that probably qualifies her as a terrorist in your eyes). Were my phone conversations with her tapped? Were the emails we exchanged read? What about the numerous text messages we send each other? Is there a transcript of those sitting on a desk in some unknown bureaucrats' office? I have a right to know these things and I demand nothing less then the truth.

How dare you violate my privacy. How dare you violate my trust. How dare you violate me. I know that your reasoning behind this is all in the name of national security. But I think I would rather take my chances on the less than one percent chance of being killed in a terrorist attack (those low odds are in no way a reflection of your idea of foreign policy) than have you wipe you feet all over the Constitution.

It all hurts to much to think about. It just hurts to much.

Your fellow American and Patriot,

Payat Rittler

\"A standing army and an overgrown Executive are not long friends of liberty.\" -- President James Madison