months and months, itch not years of intelligence, and if at any point that intelligence trail was compromised, through what we saw a couple of weeks ago or last week with the u.s. embassy closures, you have to reset and the mission doesn t go ahead. so there s a lot that goes on behind closed doors. no just about monitoring e-mails of u.s. citizen. it s like a blanket search to pick up a sound bites or code words we think al qaeda are usingment. shepard: if they need to search everything and listen to every phone call, we need to change the constitution. i couldn t agree more. shepard: maybe they ought to work on that but we got rules around here and they have to follow them. this document was pull together by our forefathers. if this bunch running the place now wants to change it, there s a process in the meantime they have to play by the rules. i run a traffic light, i get a ticket. the steal my e-mails they can t do that. good point, but forgive me