To read the NY Times over the weekend, one might conclude that President Bush ordered the NSA to wiretap Granny as she swapped recipes. Over and over they use the unqualified term "domestic spying", when the actual activity was tapping communications with known al-Qaeda operatives and message drops overseas.
One crucial detail is never mentioned: a state of War exists between the United States and al-Qaeda, has existed since September 11, 2001, and will continue to exist until there is no meaningful residue of al-Qaeda left on the planet. The United States government has very little Constitutional limitation when in the process of prosecuting a war. It can quarter troops in private homes, seize property without court action, censor news, draft citizens and declare martial law. It has done all these things in the past.
Tapping the phones of people who call international numbers found in the phone book of the guy who planned 9/11 isn't even heavy lifting.
Memo to the NY Times: Don't you know there's a war on?
Apparently not. Perhaps the (hopefully forthcoming) arrest of the publisher, editor and the reporters involved on charges of espionage would make that more clear. Not that they need to go to jail -- just give us the names of the leakers and testify at their trial...
This crap has got to stop.
Posted by Kevin Murphy at December 18, 2005 10:34 AMThe big Media outlets express the schizophrenic mind of the child-Liberals - they hate Bush because he represents adult maturity and the capability of engagement in a dangerous world, a scary world from which they would prefer to withdraw and hide.
They identify with Bin-Laden hiding in a caves. Being unable to hide they color-in and color-over with their powerful media-crayons, seeing the world like a cartoon coloring book.
Like a kid at a big event with an MP3 player stuck in the ears - they seek oblivion to their surroundings - they are the person on a cell-phone, blithely walking into the street on a red-light, heedlessly expecting perfect safety.