1.19.2006

Hebert on White House Spying on Americans...

I am jealous of people that can boil complex issues down to simple sentances, it is an ability I wish I had.

Bob Hebert does it in today's NYTimes:

I find it peculiar that an awful lot of Americans who would be outraged by the burning of the American flag are positively sanguine about the trampling of the Constitution.



Here is some more, he is commenting on Gore's speach:

One of the ugliest aspects of the Bush administration is the outright deceit that is such a major aspect of its modus operandi. Tens of thousands of men, women and children are tragically dead because of the war in Iraq, which was launched from a monstrous superstructure of deceit. Why wouldn't we expect the administration to deceive the public about the illegal spying of the National Security Agency?

As Mr. Gore noted, "During the period when this eavesdropping was still secret, the president went out of his way to reassure the American people on more than one occasion that, of course, judicial permission is required for any government spying on American citizens and that, of course, these constitutional safeguards were still in place."

The president was either lying, or -- I don't know what.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

pretty rich of the inventor of the internet to chastise the Bush administration for doing the same thing the Clinton administration did and many others before both of them!

Jack Straw