Listen to: U.S. Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)

Well I don't think that Big Brother is here in the sense that we are still able to protect people's civil liberties. However, I will say that under the Bush administration there has been an effort by the president and others to erode those civil liberties to really blur the line. We've seen this with the electronic surveillance program where they want to take the judiciary out of the process. Our system is premised on having some independent body stand between the powers of the federal government, the police powers, and the individual citizen.

Answered on Feb 20th, 2008 More