balam - 1:43 am on Aug 18, 2006 (gmt 0)

> The story has to do with Internet surveillance [...]

Does it?! Everything I've read about the subject - including the linked story - seems to indicate that this issue regards the surreptitious monitoring of telephone calls.

> Well it went political, hmmmm.

It is/was political far before the OP posted.

> Can someone explain why this is on the front page?

Shoot, why is an example of America's (read: Bush's) "guilty unless we decide you're innocent" attitude being posted here at all? Doesn't this thread violate (at minimum) TOS #16? As a webmaster who doesn't live in a police state, I fail to see the importance of this thread.