This is the type of ends justify the means menailty that is a big risk to all Americans.
Here's an excerpt...
"As the director of the effort, Vice Adm. John M. Poindexter, has described the system in Pentagon documents and in speeches, it will provide intelligence analysts and law enforcement officials with instant access to information from Internet mail and calling records to credit card and banking transactions and travel documents, without a search warrant."
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/09/politics...&partner=GOOGLE