Picture: http://www.acluutah.org/Images/03fall_4.jpg Case and point is that Michael McConnell, Director of National Intelligence, is "leading the way for the US government to have unfettered warrant-less access to citizen's search histories, emails, and other online activities. As Ryan Singel, the author of a recent article in Wired, reported that "the NSA was able to devise legislation by the strong-armed passage of the Protect America Act which was an amendment to FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act). " As Singel puts it, "This legislation single-handedly allowed for the NSA to turn GMail servers and AT&T switches into de-facto arms of the surveillance industrial complex without any court oversight." There are obvious reasons on why citizens should be concerned over this type of warrant-less access to personal, private information.