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Friday (very early) morning’s edition of Red Eye consisted of the usual comedic musings on the news-of-the-day until a particularly tense exchange developed during the Halftime Report , when TV’s Andy Levy and panelist Diane Macedo got rather heated over the issue of the New York Police Department’s new surveillance system that screams “Big Brother.” Levy challenged Macedo over her earlier claims that she “never understood the privacy arguments against the police monitoring you … you’re in the middle of a private street … you have no expectation of privacy.” Levy, clearly agitated, said, “I just want to make sure: so do you think the state has the right to track your movement?” Macedo said she doesn’t mind: “What do I care? I’m not committing any crimes, and if I am, I hope they do know that.” Panelist Kevin Williamson interjected to ask Macedo if she’d be fine with police keeping track of which books you buy at Barnes & Noble, watching to make sure you don’t buy something too...

Rob Wile | Jul. 20, 2012, 5:44 PM | 916 | Forbes' energy writer Chris Helman got an exclusive interview with George Phydias Mitchell, generally regarded as the inventor of modern hydraulic fracturing of shale rock. He told Helman that he definitely thinks the government needs to be involved in regulating the process he pioneered. "The administration is trying to tighten up controls,” Mitchell said. “I think It’s a good idea. They should have very strict controls. The Department of Energy should do it.” It's not so much the chemicals involved that bother Mitchell as the precedent a bad accident would set for the rest of the industry, he told Helman." "If they don’t do it right there could be trouble,” he says.  Read Helman's full interview on Forbes.com SEE ALSO: NATURAL GAS: An Investor's Guide To The Most Promising Commodity In The World > Please follow Money Game on Twitter and Facebook. Follow Rob Wile on Twitter. x To embed this post, copy the co...