Letters to the Editor
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Script Approved
The script is in and has been approved:
The telecoms were acting patriotically in a time of need, responding to the desperate demands of a President caught in a new and dangerous terrorist filled post 9/11 world. Why should they be punished for this?
Of course, that last rhetorical question in the script sounds nice and supports the telecoms as the innocent victims. (Hmmm kind of like when Bush claims he was the victim of bad intelligence) Unfortunately, inconvenient questions are ignored since it fuks up the script.
What about the companies that refused to go along - were they traitors?
What if this was just a stupid idea from an administration full of stupid ideas, and in practical reality there is no intelligence value in what the telecoms did?
If the telcoms are proven to break the law, this leads to the conclusion that the president was breaking the law - is this an impeachable offense?
Don't we want to know if the president was strong-arming telecoms to break the law?
Don't we want to know how and to what extent the law was broken?
Don't we want to know where is all of this data they collected?
For Crissake don't we even at least want to know if the telecoms actually are continuing this behavior to this day?