All You Need to Know About NSA Terror Monitoring

From the testimony of Attorney General Gonzales before the Senate Judiciary Committe. Here is all you need to know about the NSA terror monitoring program:

U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Holds a Hearing on Wartime Executive Power and the National Security Agency's Surveillance Authority: "GONZALES: It's an early warning system designed for the 21st century. It is the modern equivalent to a scout team, sent ahead to do reconnaissance, or a series of radar outposts designed to detect enemy movements. And as with all wartime operations, speed, agility and secrecy are essential to its success.
While the president approved this program to respond to the new threats against us, he also imposed several important safeguards to protect the privacy and the civil liberties of all Americans.

• First, only international communications are authorized for interception under this program. That is communications between a foreign country and this country.
• Second, the program is triggered only when a career professional at the NSA has reasonable grounds to believe that one of the parties to a communication is a member or agent of Al Qaida or an affiliated terrorist organization. As the president has said, if you're talking with Al Qaida, we want to know what you're saying.
• Third, to protect the privacy of Americans still further, the NSA employs safeguards to minimize the unnecessary collection and dissemination of information about U.S. persons.
• Fourth, this program is administered by career professionals at NSA, expert intelligence analysts and their senior supervisors with access to the best available information. They make the decisions to initiate surveillance. The operation of the program is reviewed by NSA lawyers, and rigorous oversight is provided by the NSA inspector general.
  I have been personally assured that no other foreign intelligence program in the history of NSA has received a more thorough review.
• Fifth, the program expires by its own terms approximately every 45 days. The program may be reauthorized, but only on the recommendation of intelligence professionals, and there must be a determination that Al Qaida continues to pose a continuing threat to America based on the latest intelligence.
• Finally, the bipartisan leadership of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees has known about this program for years.
  
  The bipartisan leadership of both the House and Senate has also been informed.
  
  During the course of these briefings, no members of Congress asked that the program be discontinued.

I keep asking this question: Can those who are so eager to politicize this issue and our national security NAME ONE AMERICAN whose civil liberties have been wrongfully infringed as a result of this terror monitoring program or the Patriot Act?