Investors Business Daily Op-Ed: “The Bush administration kept us safe after 9/11 through targeted use of the Patriot Act and its surveillance offshoots. If a phone number turned up on a terrorist laptop overseas, it made sense to look at who in the U.S. might have that number and what numbers called it or were called by it.
The Obama administration has thrown out all the rules, insisting that when you are looking for a needle in a haystack, it’s OK to seize the haystack, keep it permanently on record and to look for whatever needle they want at any time they want.”
LA Times: “A magnitude 4.6 earthquake struck Northern California on Thursday morning.
DebkaFile: “As the Syrian army makes further gains against rebel forces, DebkaFile reports Hizballah and Israel appear to be in the process of relocating their lines of confrontation from Lebanon to Syria. An incipient Israeli enclave is forming around the IDF medical facilities on the Golan for Syrian war wounded, while Hizballah is taking command of three pockets – Al Qusayr in central Syria, Shiite shrines in Damascus and 30 Shiite villages facing South Lebanon from southwestern Syria.” (picture is an Israel field hospital in the Golan)
