Caught this in the June issue of Wired
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Thanks to a new law called the Intelligence Authorization Act of 1996,
the FBI now has ready access to your credit card records.  Adopted under
the usual pretense that such legislation is needed to pursue "important
counterterrorist investigations," the law - quietly signed by President
Clinton last January - allows the Feds to snoop through basic credit
bureau files by obtaining authorization from the director of the FBI or
a designee.  No messy court orders, search warrants or subpoenas are
needed.
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My Comment:  If you own one or more guns that the gubbermint don't know
about, you might not want to buy ammo for it with your plastic.  Pay
cash instead.
I know I'm being paranoid.  The question is: am I being paranoid
**ENOUGH**?!?
Sigh.
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