Brits have a much more severe problem with homegrowns than the U.S... Not to say the U.S. doesn't have them either, tho.
Trust me, the only thing that kept the Bushies from doing it was the sheer volume of traffic that has to be monitored compared to the (relatively) paltry traffic of 25M limeys. If the Rumsfeld/Cheney posse could have done it, they would have. Hell, I still wouldn't be surprised if a story broke about how they wired up the net (moreso than is already known) along with the phone taps years ago.
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