This cannot be good

Good government does not play Calvinball with the Constitution. From the AP:

WASHINGTON - As Congress debates new rules for government eavesdropping, a top intelligence official says it is time that people in the United States changed their definition of privacy.

Privacy no longer can mean anonymity, says Donald Kerr, the principal deputy director of national intelligence. Instead, it should mean that government and businesses properly safeguard people’s private communications and financial information.

So I ask you, which is more frightening: the terrorists or the threat to our liberties posed by those that claim to protect us from the terrorists?