You wouldn't mind too much about the federal government's mining the internet for leads if they could do their freaking jobs on a normal day. There were a hundred indications that the Ft Hood shooter Major Nadal was communicating with terrorist organizations but when he went on a killing spree the feds dismissed it as a "workplace incident". How many tips did they need to monitor two Russian born terrorists in Boston when the Russians told them that these two brothers were dangerous? I used to admire General Patraeus when he was a Soldier but the A-hole apparently didn't have a clue about doing his job as CIA director when he giggled to a crowd of intelligence geeks that the CIA could monitor our dishwasher computers so they knew when we we were in the kitchen. Now we Americans have out phone calls and internet histories sealed in a warehouse in Utah until Big Brother might need them and we ain't got a thing to say about it.