The Obama administration wants to track cell phone calls, stating Americans don’t have a “reasonable expectation of privacy”

  During the campaign Barack Obama promised to end the warrantless wiretapping of telephones belonging to United States citizens. But his actions as president do not quite live up to his promises as a candidate; he continued President Bush wiretapping program and his administration even threw out a lawsuit that was brought against the program.

  And now his administration has gone one step further. In a wiretapping lawsuit that is entering appeals court, the Obama administration is arguing that Americans don’t have a “reasonable expectation of privacy” in regards to their cellphone conversations or the location of where they have used their cellphones. 

  This seems to be at odds with the position that he had taken as a candidate when he was so adamant that President Bush was trampling the rights of the people by listening in on their conversations, which was not happening without proper suspicions that those people were in contact with dubious people overseas.

  In President Bush’s case, he was using the warrentless wiretapping to track potential terrorist activity. In this case, the question is not one terrorism but criminal activity. Barack Obama considers terrorism a crime and not an act of war, so what is the difference between the Bush plan and the Obama plan? How can he justify one plan while railing against the other?

  This is one decision that is sure to anger the left, and it will be interesting to see if they try to justify it after attacking President Bush for years for using the same type of activity that their leader is now advocating and defending.