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January 01, 2006
It's All Very Simple, Really.
It just never ceases to amaze me how they can twist issues with such a straight face:
On Sunday, the president strongly defended a program that allows domestic spying on those suspected of having ties to terrorist groups. "If somebody from al-Qaida is calling you, we'd like to know why," Bush said in San Antonio.
As if that was ever the question. What they are doing is thwarting what weak oversight there was over domestic spying. Honestly, which judge in the United States would have denied the government the right to wiretap an actual terrorism suspect?
Further, their reckless and illegal domestic program spying program also endangers everyone for a very simple reason. Such a large dragnet is impossibly large to sift through in a meaningful way in real time. If they had a effort targeted at actual terror suspects, they might actually catch someone planning something.
Posted by zeynep at January 1, 2006 08:43 PM