Domestic Spying

If the Bush administration stopped spying on American citizens so much and spent more time trying to actually protect this country they could probably do much more to stop the insurgent attacks in Iraq and many of the terrorist attacks around the world. It is also possible they could find the person or persons who planned and took part in the Anthrax attack. They could probably do so much if they would just stop spying on Americans citizens.

That would mean that the spies would have to go to hot, dusty countries with funny-looking people, lousy plumbing and worse food, where they don't speak the language, can't find their way around, and keep getting ripped off by cab drivers. No thanks!

Much better to spy on Americans right here at home where, no matter where you go, your no more than 20 minutes from a Denny's and hotel televisions have proper porn channels. Much better!

It's like the old joke about the drunk swaying under a lamp post on a dark night, peering at the ground. A passer-by asks him what he's looking for. The drunk says, "my wedding ring." The passer-by says, "Where did you lose it?" The drunk replies, "Down that alley there, behind the pool hall." The passer-by looks at him oddly and asks, "Then why are you looking here?" The drunk stares at him and replies, "Because the light's better here."

Seems like, we the People, will have to form our own "Intelligence Service", we could call it the CIA... "Citizens Intelligence Agency". It's purpose would be to "spy" on our government to see what it's up to and forward their findings to the public. All the sorts of things that the "Media" was once expected (or hoped, or thought, or fantasized) to do.

Publicly Funded... We could fund it through donations and grants from wherever we can get them from (hopefully including the Democratic Party itself, as well as other prominent "Citizens" organizations).

Citizen Staffed... We could staff it with significant numbers of disillusioned liberal (at heart) journalists who've suffered under the current anti-liberal system, as well as (importantly) ex-CIA and FBI employees who've been forced to resign, purged by the White House or who've retired out of disgust...

As such, it would be means of helping those ex-government employees who've been harmed by their previous employer (Bush/U.S. Government or any Mega-Media Corporation) just because of their political beliefs or their integrity (refusing to go along with the wrong-headed or even criminal actions or lies of their agency/company). These are people we should have stood behind and supported.

I'm sure we could do it, it would be just the thing--given the government's new "secrecy". It could achieve considerable success without violating the law, and not being a "federal agency", it would obviously be able to report it's findings to the people in an honest manner. It's a "CIA" we could all be proud** of...

**not to say that the real CIA hasn't served at least some important purposes for our country or even to say that when they've done less than noble deeds, that they weren't just following the orders of our "leaders"... even so...

time flying around the country giving his bullshit speeches to his "base."

Does this douchebag ever do anything constructive??