Matt Welch Advises: Be Paranoid
"What are you afraid of Matt?" That was the subject line of an email received in April 2003 about the PATRIOT Act. We now know that 2003 was the year the National Security Agency (NSA) opened up Room 641A at an AT&T building in San Francisco to tap into and analyze data flowing through the Internet backbone. Matt Welch details the growing list of reasons why Americans should be wary of their government.