Hold the Conspiracy Please

President Bush authorized domestic spying, as in the government can monitor phone calls between U.S. citizens and foreign nationals, in 2002. According to the former director of the National Security Agency [the guys that have the power to monitor a whole lot of people's e-mails, telephone calls and other ways of communication] Michael V. Hayden said that the reason for this was because vital information could be lost because it takes time to get a warrant. [washingtonpost.com]

Now for those of you who don't know, telephone companies, namely, those 1-800 numbers we make when we make collect calls, are already recording our conversations. Sure, it is to make sure that the quality of our conversation is up-to-par, but still, our conversations are being recorded nonetheless.
You have to wonder about the abuse that could be made because the government is watching us , and really... ever since 9/11 the public have been very willing to give up their privacy more because they are worried about their safety. It should be a good thing that we have a government that is taking steps to further public safety, if anything we should be worried if the government wasn't doing anything. But there is a time, where we have to wonder if they will go too far, taking advantage of their new hold on America's attention. President Bush's term has been the most unbalanced of the checks and balances in the executive branch favor, what is this suppose to mean for the new president's term starting in 2008?

So I guess we have to choose; security or privacy? One extreme to the next, where is this balance that our framers seemed to crave so much?