Whoa, this really upsets me, unless, of course, al Qaeda is on the other end of the line. Umm, would it not have been helpful on September 10th to have had a president who gave a sh()t about this?
I love the outrage. The screechy, breathless diatribes about trashing the constitution. Pardon me while I laugh at all of you who made excuses and tut-tutted about the Clinton Administration being in possession of over 700 FBI files (filled with all sorts of sensitive, extremely private info) of prominient republicans (all American citizens!) . Not only were you not outraged then, but now, after 9/11, you want to call this an abuse of authority? Where were you and your sanctimonious, non-partisan outrage eight years ago? Or, could it be , this president happens to be republican? Does the name Craig Livingstone ring a bell? On whose staff was he employed?
How quickly they forget. Anyway, 70% of Americans ho-hum this issue, and that's what is driving the lib wing-nuts crazy. Zero traction. FDR did much worse than this and the country survived.
