After 60 years of living, you mistakenly begin to believe you've seen pretty much everything, but the current administration has shown me a few new wrinkles. We're six years into this debacle and it's getting worse, not better.
As A/G Gonzales gears up to again justify the surveilling of Americans in America, his credibility continues to shrink. While trying to extricate from the stench of writing the "torture memo" advising Bush how to escape culpability for immoral/illegal acts , he's now seen as apologist-in-chief/sycophant for this administration. It's being written that he plans to use the lame justification that their "program" is very targeted, and very careful to protect the identities of innocent Americans who may get caught in their "data mining" exercises.
Break out the rubber boots! It's getting deeper and deeper!
Those who watched or read the transcripts from Negroponte's sham performance before Congressional committee last week, recall his "inability to recall" just how many American's rights have been violated and that his memory wouldn't get any better in closed session! This supposedly-brilliant intelligence professional had no idea whether Poindexter's Total Information Awareness program (after being slammed shut by Congress - both in funding and for unconstitutionality) has been re-named and moved to other intel offices. That sounds like a "Yes" to me!
Ergo; my conclusion about Gonzales' assurances that you and I are being protected.....Forgive me, Mr. Attorney General, but your credibility track record
is a bit thin! Since they didn't bother to get probable cause warrants, it stands to reason they would be unable to substantiate that claim with documentation.
When someone shows you who they REALLY are, believe them!