Amnesty for Illegal Wiretappers? Mickey Kaus: "3) that's probably illegal; 4) but it's also probably a good way to stop terror plots--it hardly presents a 'false choice;' 5) the solution is to make it explicitly legal--lower the standard for search warrants, allow mass warrants for whole bundles of phone calls, while retaining some judicial supervision. "

Mickey nicely reviews the wiretapping issue, and most of the solution. Make data-mining explicitly legal.

All explicit requests of any and all politicians and bureaucrats should be recorded, and saved in duplicate files, for later auditing. Names of those searching, and "how many" searches they did, should be produced monthly.