Why isn't Congress investigating/overseeing the NSA scandal? Because the democrats are equally at fault with republicans in allowing this very scary invasion of our privacy. For that reason alone, this issue is a non-starter for this or any future Congress.

- Jake007

I wonder if you have any children. People who cheer on genocide are the laziest, most incapable of thinking beyond how to take a dump without crusting up their panties or boxers or briefs.

Go back to Freperland, where they will greet your basement-boy slaughter dreams with out-stretched arms.

How about monitoring every call to / from SUSPECT terrorists then? Is that O.K. with you? Maybe you just don't KNOW you are calling suspected terrorists?

Please explain how you are made more secure by government monitoring of conversations unrelated to terrorism. I do not discuss anything remotely construable as terrorism with anyone I speak to. I am a Christian and practically a pacifist.

How does recording an interaction between me, a non-terrorist, and someone suspected of terrorism, in which NO terrorist activity will be discussed, make you or anyone else safer?

It only violates my privacy while adding absolutely no security benefit.

Indeed. PBS just cancelled a show describing the difference between moderate and fundamentalist Muslims. Dhimmitude reigns.

God, you're embarassing. Dhimmitude? A creep like you would be the first to throw stones at sinners if your paranoiac fantasies of being subjected by manly bearded Muslims ever came true.

Followers follow. If you weren't a follower, you'd see no threat in "dhimmitude".

(Incidently, although I'd be very interested in seeing this documentary, the involvement of Frank Gaffney does not bode well: he is a PNAC signatory, which is to say, he is a crazy man who wants to rule the entire world, with no exaggeration.)

Without a doubt PBS considers Bush a greater threat than suicide bombers. At least until another attack occurs.

Bush has ordered actions which have resulted in far more deaths than all the suicide bombers in history.

Please explain how suicide bombers are a greater threat to human life than the Bush administration before you continue.

How about monitoring every call to / from SUSPECT terrorists then? Is that O.K. with you? Maybe you just don't KNOW you are calling suspected terrorists?

P.S. Kitt – good point – Truman dropped TWO A-bombs to end WWII. Most every historian agrees that was the right decision for him to make. BTW: you don’t think the ROBERTS Supreme Court would uphold empounding every Arab-American or otherwise suspected terrorist in the meantime? They will certainly uphold lesser included “offenses” as well.

The show cancelled by PBS to which Shooter refers was cancelled for two reasons. (1) The filmmaker -- a first-timer, who scored a serious coup in landing a gig to make a film for a major PBS series -- violated the contract he was given by turning in a two-hour film when the terms clearly stated he was to deliver a one-hour piece. Then he refused to edit. The film was to be part of an entire series that had been scheduled and promoted months in advance. This guy thought all the affiliates all across the country should just change schedules to accomodate his vision. (2) PBS/CPB was uncomfortable with the very sketchy fact-checking. People who appeared in the film seemed not to be using their real names, or be claiming to representing organizations they didn't represent or that didn't exist. PBS/CPB asked the filmmaker for better documentation/fact-checking. Again he refused. And went to the right-wing media and screamed like a big baby.

Your second point has a certain appeal to it. I’ve always wondered how much of Washington politics was based on mutually assured destruction. Just before the 2006 election, with the passage of the torture “ban” (which did nothing), the MCA, and the lack of action on warrantless wiretapping, I thought perhaps the Democrats were being blackmailed.

My only concern is that this would be blackmail on such a scale as to be conspiracy theory. Unless, of course, the Rethugs only need to blackmail a few key people. (Yet another argument not to invest too much authority in one person.)

at least Bush is not rounding up every Arab-American and shipping them off to camps ; )

-- Jake007

Kind of lowballing, ain't you? At least Bush hasn't decidererd to drop nukes on Iraq and Iran. What a guy.

Are you willing to go on record as wishing to abandon the phone record search for terrorists?

Yes, if you are referring to en-masse trawling for haystack needles. I have no problem with phone records being subpoenaed for particular cases as was usual practice in the past, and as has actually been proven EFFECTIVE.

No listening in on overseas calls?

I'm not calling any terrorists, so there is no reason for any government authority to listen to my calls.

Maybe you ARE calling terrorists, for instance domestic terrorists armed with IEDs:

http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/117844294465520.xml&coll=1

so if that is the case, please volunteer to have your OWN communications monitored, for the good of all of us.

But any government official who monitors my communications is wasting tax dollars and overstepping his constitutional bounds.

What other insulation from discovery would you like to provide these people?

Duct tape and plastic sheeting, maybe? How about we just quit pretending that massive data mining doesn't actually decrease security? Quit pretending that it helps anyone but totalitarians?

If your dad is a WWII vet, he knows exactly what needs to be done on the home front -- at least Bush is not rounding up every Arab-American and shipping them off to camps ; )

Circuit City donate sell Sweet Potato's with potato eyes to spy on you when you pea pickin'.

Now, if one claims spy's are Splenda used in chain restaurants and 4,000 sweet pop-soda beverage products et., then Splenda!

If not watching our belly and need to be slender from drinking Glenda at a FDA's lobby party, drink home-brews. Equal is feuding with Merisant Ceo's and is seeking 25- billion in lost sweet sales!?!

They are from the Law Flem Slim Offices of Crooks Chitin & Wow.

The law fraud shenanigan's law-teams are demanding $25-smacker-roe's (sweet graham skinny Lindsey?) because the worst product fake sugarcoma CEO lied in public advertising gimmicks, a saying..."Made from sugar, so it taste like sugar." huh.

I got kicked off here, and somehow got to read a terrible pop-up DoJ's article about nu-tri-sweet Splenda. Before I get into bitter trouble, let me kindly opine that it's a Splendor to read ya all.

It's a Splendor to greet ya too.

So long, it's been Splendour to be here this morning. I'm in a slender-weight-loss problem condition with a big tummy for hanging out here with you. You often give me a bad mood. A lot, a big lot-- a pile of trouble, too....thanks to you. Well, we/i will keep digging till I 'hit' china, or land in a stateside Sheol pit, or pay for a Salon prescription with a bushel basket of fertile dirt?

Then you can grow your own Sweet Potatoes, pumpkins, watermelons, cherry heirloom pear shaped tomatoes, squash, winter acorns (sore feet?) that are long-term basement keepers, sweet bell peppers, Jerusalem artichokes (no choke the poor chickens) Chinese pin-head cabbage, cantaloupe, cauliflower for vanilla ice cream cones...and chicory endive root. sorry, again, and no sorry. Plant dibble sweet edible gourds. Cucumbers, eggplant, broccoli, and baby Arab greens for the cute (21 st cen. rug-rat) baby's, and No forget the green Sorrel and Sasify.