Maybe I missed a bunch of news but according to preznit propaganda wanker, Trent Duffy:
http://usinfo.state.gov/xarchives/display.html?p=washfile-english&y=2005&m=December&x=20051227155915eaifas0.6796991&t=livefeeds/wf-latest.htmlMR. DUFFY: This is a limited program. This is not about monitoring phone calls designed to arrange Little League practice or what to bring to a potluck dinner. These are designed to monitor calls from very bad people to very bad people who have a history of blowing up commuter trains, weddings, and churches. And the President believes that he has the authority -- and he does -- under the Constitution to do this limited program. The Congress has been briefed. It is fully in line with the Constitution and also with protecting American civil liberties.
Now hold it a second...what did I miss? Has Al Queda blown up a church or wedding somewhere in the United States lately? Has there been a plot uncovered that had Al Zarqawi was calling for the latest train schedules? Did we somehow uncover thousands...errr...hundreds...err...any Al Queda operatives inside the United States in the past three years??? In the world according to Duffy we sure must have...or that this regime must have had some very reliable information that compelled them to violate the FISA laws repeatedly.
And while we're at it...what real threat has Al Queda posed to this country? Does it have an air force the size of the Japanese in 1941 or a Navy of the Germans (with those nasty Enigma machines)? This is one of the justifications this regime appears to be fabricating to pry further into our private lives.
But, of course, we're "at war". Now, maybe I missed this one as well...when did Congress issue that Declaration of War???
Looks like the manure is being spread for another Rovian lawn of astroturfing...
Happy New Year...