He’s wrong of course, but I doubt that the majority od Americans care. The ‘secret’ wiretaps that the President so vigorously defended today are not essential to the defense of America. Bush always couchs his arguments in absolutes: as in ‘these wiretaps are saving lives and are therefore essential’. He is indulging in his favorite […]

Is this true? President Bush authorized the NSA to spy on domestic communications as part of his anti-terror effort. The New York Times has a report here: Bush Secretly Lifted Some Limits on Spying in U.S. After 9/11, Officials Say. I don’t have too much of an issue with snooping around in the anti-terror effort, […]

Senator Feinstein of California asked for a report on the level of intelligence that Congress receives compared with that of the White House. She did this because President Bush has said repeatedly that Congress saw the same intelligence he did prior to the Iraq invasion, and so cannot now say they changed their minds about […]