Eugene Robertson, in a Washington Post Op-Ed about the latest domestic spying by the NSA:
At least now we know that the Bush administration's name for spying on Americans without first seeking court approval -- the "terrorist surveillance program" -- isn't an exercise in Orwellian doublespeak after all. It's just a bald-faced lie.
Bush and his people have tried to turn flouting the law into a virtue if it's a law they find inconvenient...We already knew the NSA was somehow monitoring phone calls, so what's the big deal?
Bush has tried to convince us that the overwhelming majority of Americans are not affected by domestic surveillance, but now we know that the opposite is true: The overwhelming majority of us are.
The president's claim, in his brief statement on the report, that the government isn't "trolling through the personal lives of millions of innocent Americans" is as disingenuous as Bill Clinton's claim that he "didn't inhale."
Are we safer yet?
