Raping of the Fourth Amendment

I am still amazed how we average American citizens can have our phones tapped, our email and mail read and recorded, and all our private financial information recorded and analyzed by the government. No warrants needed. Our fourth amendments rights have been trampled in Bushworld. The fourth amendment states: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." If you are an "idealist" and believe the Constitution is an ideal worth protecting in the post 9-11 world, you simply want more planes to fly into buildings and have more innocent Americans killed. Bushworld's three notes are sounded repeatedly. You are for us or against us. You support the troops, or you support the terrorists. Clinton is the root of all evil. People tell me if you have nothing to hide from the government, why is it a problem that the government monitors all your information? I believe in the Bill of Rights! I offer back if Bush has nothing to hide, and neither does Rove, Miers, Gonzales, et. al. why does Bush want to hide behind executive privilege? Why does King George hide behind the same Constitution he raped when he rescinded the fourth amendment for everyday Americans. Ironic that the Constitution only makes Bush's "private" information unavailable to the government, to Congress, or to the people. I am not an expert, but doesn't executive privilege only apply to information between the President and his minions? I don't think executive privileges applies to communication between Miers and Rove, Rove and Gonzales, Sampson and Rove, and all the combinations of the players that don't include Bush. John Dean said basically the same thing tonight about what executive privilege covers. Sad how Bush has manipulated the Constitution. Sadder, the current configuration of the Supreme Court is one of the most Conservative in history. Even helped King George get elected. I hope the Constitution and the laws and the courts will finally be used against Bush, Rove, Gonzales, et. al. instead of as support for their agenda. On a bright note, Chaney's name hasn't appeared in the AG-gate...wonder where he was???