FRANKNOTE

They are paid to keep an eye on you —because the FBI can't. For the government to collect this stuff is against the law unless you're suspected of a crime. (The law in question is the Constitution.) But ChoicePoint can collect if for 'commercial' purchases—and under the Bush Administration's suspect reading of the Patriot Act—our domestic spying apparatchiks can then BUY the info from ChoicePoint.