There was language inserted into an omnibus spending bill that would have allowed two committee chairmen to view the tax returns of any American. The language was caught and is being revised before being sent to President Bush for his approval. What is concerning here, as Republican Senator John McCain points out, is that when budgets and bills are pushed through at the end of a session, noone has a chance to read them and virtually anything can be contained in the bill.

Obviously this is a serious invasion of privacy, but it makes one ponder how much legislation there may be in these hundreds of thousands of pages of leglislation that either explicitly or implicitly violates the privacy and rights of U.S. citizens.

More information can be found on this ongoing news story at this article on CNN.com.