Can we come out from under our beds now?

The Quarter-Baked Plot to Bomb the New York Stock Exchange

"More than a bit of a stretch. Wired reports that "even the government's own sentencing memorandum shows that the defendants called off a proposed plot on their own, without involvement from federal authorities."" 

The great thing about having the courts, the Congress, and the executive branch all involved in this snooping thing is that they can all come together to cover each other's asses when things go wrong.