Letters to the Editor
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Why the presumption...
...that only international conversations are being intercepted? Because Bush said so? Since we know Bush and his minions have lied bout everything else, why would they stop with this?
Wouldn't a more likely presumption be that they are, in fact, surveilling intra-national as well as international communications? And, for that matter, that they have also targeted journalists and/or domestic opposition?
Especially given that it is already a published fact that the Defense Dept's intelligence arms have spied upon domestic political and even environmental groups even after it has been demonstrated that they are not in violation of the law, nor a threat to the nation. Not to mention that it is also a published fact that the HSA has already been misused for domestic political ends (that would be tracking the errant Texas Democratic state legislators when they went missing to try to deny a quorum for DeLay's gerrymandering of the state). And these are only the abuses that we KNOW of so far; a reasonable inference would be that there is far more of which we do not yet know, out there waiting to be found, or to be whistleblown.
And if some NSA or other spook is reading this... bite me. It's my country too, twerp. In fact, given that I understand and support the Constitution as it's written, and the current administration clearly does not, it's arguably MORE my country than theirs.